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mario.be

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460 Color or mono
« on: May 18, 2013, 05:30:49 AM »
How good is the color version or how much better is the mono version  ;D
I'm not so fond off all that post-processing

patholland

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Re: 460 Color or mono
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2013, 12:52:03 AM »
Mono is generally considered better simply because you are not shooting through a bayer matrix. Beyond that, it's usually a personal choice.

MicroAstro

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Re: 460 Color or mono
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2013, 04:35:20 PM »
I've used both color and mono CCDs in the past and continue to image with a mono 383L+ and a DSLR color camera. If you image under dark skies and are happy to do RGB imaging, then color cameras can be used to great effectiveness. If you image in light-polluted skies or want to do narrowband imaging then a mono camera will actually entail less processing in my opinion. With some effort you can get decent Ha/OIII bicolor images with a color camera (forget SII however) - with the drawback that only some of the pixels get any signal, the rest contributing only noise due to the Bayer matrix - but it's not easy to process. Narrowband with a mono camera is in a whole different league. Depends upon your conditions and what you want to accomplish - it's not so simple as color being easier to process than mono.
...Keith