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Hi,
With your ZWO I290mc color cam you need a UV/IR blocker (or images will be a little blurry and color off) and just use a normal luminance channel in Fire capture, stack in Autostakkert3! and tweak wavelets in Registax 6.
IR bypass filters can sometimes improve detail in poor seeing but if seeing is reasonable it is best not to use them on the planets.
For the planets or Jupiter I doubt you will get much benefit from an light pollution filter. I mage in Canberra and do not use one, and know of few others that do so for the planets.
Seeing and (with Cats/Maks tube currents and collimation) are the issues that affects the quality of images in the planets most often. Seeing may be a lot better where you are and tube currents may also be less of an issue if you keep the scope outside. I have not got as good images with my standard C8 and 2.5x powermate on its Celestron Evolution mount so far in April this year as I did in earlier in March for the planets (see March images below) when they were more distant as I have not had good seeing when I have got up early.
Saturn is much fainter than Mars or Jupiter and needs better seeing conditions than I have had while this far from opposition and so is by far the worst of the three images. I do have many far better images of Saturn but this one illustrates how it can look in a C8 in poor seeing at the moment. At present I am capturing Saturn at around 30fps compared to 200fps for Mars with a ZWO I224MC. But judging from last year where I was using a C6 as we get close to opposition (in July for Saturn and Jupiter), I know I will get images much better than these early images from this year.
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