Dave is, of course, correct. All glows are pinkish and slowly drift towards a very lack luster dirty white with a trace of blue when observed with the naked eye.
Yes, all of the CCD mediums record seem to record as blue hues.
If you all remember my stars, they are a beutiful cobalt bluish with white cores. I believe one graces the head of this forum.
All, that is 100% of the images I have posted, are from images recorded directly off of a CCD video camera or off the face of a pure black and white TV monitor with a CCD Sony Mavica still camera. All are blue casted. Also, any actual wet process photos that I have shot with kodak color film are all recorded off the monitor as blue!! This blue color, while beauatiful, is false, nonetheless. D2 stars to the naked eye are a rich red-pink (H-alpha H-beta). Oddly, I actually captured this coloration in Joe Zambelli's fusor during my visit last year with the mavica. I can't explain this. (see my website) http://richmond.infi.net/~rhull
* NOTE*** With the fusor pushing D2 and making stars, (~20kev or more), a view port is a leathally radiative area. X-rays which can fry an eye are pouring out of the thing. The x-rays are soft and noted for burning. They are highly damaging to the eye as every single ray will be absorbed and will do damage!!! Want cataracts? This is the quickest and easiest method to collect a few! Never, ever look into a view port directly above 10kv applied.
While all machines should have a view port, it should have a camera permenatnly positioned in front of it. If it doesn't, then you should make up a lead cover shield when it is not used. This can be quite thin - 3mm (1/8") is fine.
Richard Hull
Created on Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:53 AM EDT by Richard Hull