Joël avatar

Hello everyone, here's a quick little trick to quickly check astro filters with just a phone and a basic "spectroscope".📷 Capture.JPGCapture.JPGCiao

Tony Gondola avatar

This is interesting to see but it’s really not telling you much. Yes, you can see that you are passing more or less the correct bands but you have no way to measure anything. No way to tell if the band passes and center frequencies are correct.

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