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Originally Posted by kosh
Hi lee,
How much time do you have for imaging? Remember your mono cam would need separate exposures for red, green, and blue and possible a luminance also. So add 3 filters imaging time, and not to mention the cost of the filters and probably the filter wheel also ( you mentioned limited budget ).
If you have the time, and can extend your budget to cover the filters etc, go the mono. Otherwise the OSC is a safe bet.
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With a MONO camera all the light hits all the pixels all the time - thus they are about 3x as sensitive as their OSC equivalents all other things being equal total exposure time for the same SNR will be the same. If you move to LRGB and bin the colour 2x2 you can get more data in less time than with a OSC. And you can use it for NB. The trade off is more processing and more gear.