Anybody got a list of all the filters used in the filter wheels on Cassini's narrow and wide angle cameras? I've got a simple list of the filters (BL1, UV3, etc.), but not the nanometers for each filter. Googled like mad, but no joy.

Thanks,

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

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Thanks; I've got basically this list; what I'm really looking for is any idea where each filter is centered as to nanometers?

Thanks,

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

Mr. Sternbach,

I took a filter name provided by the other poster and added wavelength and Cassini and Googled it and found:

From http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/299/5612/1541/DC1/1 :

GRN (568nm), CB1 (619nm), CB3 (938nm), MT1 (619nm), and those in S2.
UV1 (258nm), BL1 (451nm), CB2 (751nm), MT2 (727nm), and MT3 (889nm).

Trying a Google for "IR4 UV3 nm cassini" found the following:

http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/cas...strumente.html

It is in German and the page is badly formatted, but one can find in it a table with the complete data you want.

Rick, sorry for misremembering the original question. I just got so excited when I found the FAQ.

But, I'm glad if it helped lead to that nice German site.

Harlequin, that's really cool. I tried doing some searching myself but only found that other Porco et al PDF document that gave a few filter centers. That was clever to search on the filter names, to get past the laguage barrier, and score the German version. Way to go.

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A big hint in using search engines is to be specific. If one knows some info, use it. As for the German site, I don't know German but even before I clicked I knew it was unlikely to be a language barrier since the data would most likely be in a table that would look the same in German, etc. as it does in English (with the exception of headers or comments). The filter names are not going to change (if they did Google would not have found that page), the numbers are going to be the same, and "nm" is standard symbol which will be the same in all languages.

Of course if you had not posted the filter names, I might not have got the job done.

Superb; thanks for the assist!

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com