Well Stan that might work. As you well know all observatories have long vertical shafts . :-) Jeff At 19:21 -0700 07/17/2007, Stan Gorodenski wrote: >Brian Skiff wrote: >>>> would placing a sheet of red cellophane >>>> over the objective end of the telescope work...? >> Folks have tried all sorts of subterfuges.... >Have they tried shooting the telescope and ccd camera down a very long >vertical shaft? At the right speed the wavelength should match the >wavelength of the red sky color of a night sky. >Stan -- Jeff Hopkins HPO SOFT Counting Photons http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html Hopkins Phoenix Observatory 7812 West Clayton Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A. (623)849-5889 (623) 247-1190 (Fax) www.hposoft.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.