Specifications

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images electronically to produce a color composite or RGB color image. The Research model
cameras contain internal motorized color filter wheel. When filters are installed in the filter
wheel, light entering the camera passes through the colored filter before it strikes the CCD. An
object is then exposed using a red filter. The wheel is commanded to insert the green filter in
place, and another image taken. Finally a blue image is taken. When all three images have
been saved, they may be merged into a single color image using SBIG or third party color
software.