rare swallow
I started off with a color astrocam and moved to mono within 7 months. But, I had no prior experience with AP beforehand.
To use monochrome, you need filters, most people get SHO + LRGB, but you can leave Sii out if you're pinching pennies at first.
I personally would advise going mono but, it depends on your budget, it is better that OSC in every way for the majority of non-galaxy DSOs. And for broadband targets, you have LRGB.
Your narrowband filters are $400 each, and a LRGB set is $400 ish, assuming antlia. I don't advise lower quality.
Processing is... different. I'd say it's easier than broadband processing, because the data is an order of magnitude nicer.
Narrowband also gives you so much control over how you color & style your projects
teal siren
Thank you for the input. I’m mainly interested in lrgb, because i enjoy making “realistic” or atleast natural color images keeping the original balance.
Whats up with imaging galaxies in mono? Is there any difficulties or just not woth it? 😄
rare swallow
Thank you for the input. I’m mainly interested in lrgb, because i enjoy making “...
I also go for realistic! Unfortunately, with OSC…. 95%-90%of targets aren’t possible to even image because they’re too dim.
Galaxies are great with mono
Do LRGB and get some Ha to boost them
It’s more work but it’s stunning
teal siren
why would an object be too dim for a OSC but not too dim for the same mono camera but with a LRGB set? ( again i'm not interested in invisible spectrum at all)
rare swallow
why would an object be too dim for a OSC but not too dim for the same mono camer...
Light pollution, and ambient light from stuff like the moon, as well as, to my understanding, the signal to noise (snr) is much cleaner in narrowband.
Even in truly bortle 1 skies, narrowband will produce better results than OSC on a dim target
But, in b1 skies you better be imaging dark nebula or something hot unless you live there 24-7
teal siren
well what i'm trying to say that narrowband (OiSHO) does not interest me. Only broadband rgb. And afaik rgb filters will suffer the same light pollution problems just as regular OSC
rare swallow
Ah then yeah, pick your poison