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Old 09-08-2013, 07:34 PM
johnnyt123 (John)
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My experience with the one shot colour camera is limited to the use of the Orion starshoot deep sky colour imager pro 2.

It still serves me well but I have recently decided to move to mono imaging with LRGB and narrow band filters.

I live in Sydney and light pollution is a problem.

The disadvantage with one shot colour is that they are not as sensitive as mono cameras due to the Bayer matrix overlying the CCD chip. This means you need longer exposure times which will result in a lot of light pollution affecting your final image.
Narrow band imaging eliminated light pollution and I believe you can only do this with mono Chip imagers.

One shot colour cameras perform well with fast optical systems.
The Orion imager I have isn't very sensitive at f10 but is reasonable at f6.3 and below.

If you want to use hyperstar then one shot colour is a better option as it eliminates the need for a filter wheel that will obstruct your scope's aperture.
For low f ratio you may want to consider the SXVR-H814c http://www.sxccd.com/trius-h814c
For high f ratio the SXVR-M25c with the larger pixel size is a good option.

Hope that helps.

John
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