This is a transparent yellow glass disk 16.5cm in diameter and 0.5cm thick. It is wrapped in a piece of cream-coloured cloth and plastic with a masking tape label stuck around it.
Accession Number: 2019.ast.215 (DAA-0110)
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Primary Materials: Glass, Fabric (Cotton?), Plastic.
Handwritten on the masking tape: “YELLOW FILTER OPTICAL QU[ality?] GLASS”
Dimensions (cm): Filter: Height = 0.5, Diameter = 16.5.
A yellow filter absorbs all colours of light except yellow.
Very Good: The plastic wrapping of the object is ripped and crinkled. The masking tape has been broken up when the package has been opened. The fabric is dirty and somewhat yellowed.
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Date of Manufacture: 20th Century
This object was kept at the David Dunlap Observatory until 2009. Upon the sale of the Observatory, it was moved to the University of Toronto’s Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the St George Campus. In 2017 it was moved to a new storage location in McLennan Physical Laboratories.
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