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my impression re colour vs mono cameras:
I believe that the mono will outperform the colour only at big image scales ie at f39 and then the 1.5x resamples ie Chris Go and Damian Peach.
Unless your seeing and scope can give you that size once a month, then it will probably be a waste of money!
Maurice with his c14 / toucam and Lester with his Meade 14” / neximage are proving what can be done with toucam technology and framerates
The other side of it is that you can control focus / settings for each colour with a mono, BUT again the seeing has to be really great to even notice the small difference this would make.
So if you are aiming to image with the very best of them, and you are prepared to travel to places of great seeing then making sure you have the best equipment at the time to make that 5% difference is important!
If I lived in canberra, SA, melbourne, hobart and wanted to image, then i honestly believe that the mono camera would not be used to it full capacity due to conditions outside your control.
As an example, nearly every jupiter image posted on IIS these last two months is way better than anything Damian Peach has been able to produce due to a 24 degree latitude and horrible seeing in England. This is with a near perfect collimated C14, new lumenera skynx mono camera
But we all know what he produces when he goes to Barbados or other times of great seeing!!!
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