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chrisseal

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Black and White images
« on: December 12, 2013, 01:06:24 am »
I have an Titan colour CCD and I been using it to take images of Jupiter but I only seem to get Black and White images. The image is colour on the screen but get black  and white.

NickK

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Re: Black and White images
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2013, 12:51:07 pm »
The B&W image is probably needs to be debayered.

The camera takes a B&W image through a special bayer matrix (just like most cameras) and the result is then coloured based on the B&W pixel value at the position of the bayer matrix - this is called debayering. The resulting debayered image is then colour.

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