3 Feb. 2014, 8:49 UTC от Richard Hughes wrote: >...Using glass filters probably contributed to the >cost, but otherwise the board is very simple indeed. I'm kinda >confused about that giant lens tho, surely the beam needs to be >collimated from a narrow angle, although I don't know how the diffuser >would affect things. I think the lens is needed for enlarging the instrument >aperture to increase the light flow. The last is improving the sensors >signal/noise ratio. The glass filters seems to be interesting: they are semi-transparent mirrors with the coatings that reflects unwanted wavelength and passes the needed. Surely the filter coatings are multi-layer to achieve desired spectral transparency shape.