I just took an infrared photo of the tarmac because I thought the clouds and trees would look good and discovered this one plane has a very bright infrared light on its tail. Does anyone know what that might be for?
20+ years ago I went through the exercise of making a digital camera that could shoot in infrared—removing the low pass filter and replacing it with a piece of custom-cut optical glass and getting a "black filter" to cut out the visible light. This…