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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: appearance of IR jammers
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- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:24:34 GMT
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- From henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- >From hill@plains.NoDak.edu (Andrew Hill)
- >My question has to deal with the IRCM jamming unit mounted on HH-53
- >Pave Low helos. The show featured some late evening flight footage
- >and the jammer was glowing a light baby blue. This wasn't the low-
- >voltage formation lighting (I know the difference quite well, thank
- >you), I was unaware that the devices glowed, let alone in that par-
- >ticular color. Anyone have any explanations? ...
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- Fortuitously, it just got mentioned in sci.electronics a few days ago
- that IR-emitting LEDs often look blue to modern CCD-based cameras.
- The CCD chips which do the imaging are actually quite sensitive to
- IR, but to give proper reproduction of visible light, an attempt is
- made to filter out the IR. In color cameras, the IR filters are
- usually combined with the color filters (a color camera is essentially
- three B&W cameras with red-only, green-only, and blue-only filters in
- front of them). The common type(s) of blue filter seem to be less-
- effective IR blockers than the other two colors, for some reason, so
- IR sources look faintly blue when seen through modern cameras. It's
- entirely an artifact of the camera; they don't glow visibly.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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