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Hi Brendan
Your camera and scope are perfectly suited for planetary imaging, you will need an UV / IR Cut filter but you wont need a light pollution filter, the planets and moon are bright enough to easily see from LP skies. What you will need for nights of steady seeing is an 2X Barlow, Televue Powermates are favoured by most planetary imagers in this regard. That will give you plenty of focal length, for Mars especially though your scopes native focal length of 2350 mm is fine for getting good images on less than perfect nights.
I use the same camera as yours, the ZWO290mc with UV / IR filter on an 150mm F8 Saxon Newt on an HEQ5 mount, moving up in aperture this year though and a 2.5 Powermate for the planets and the moon sometimes. So I'm imaging at 3000mm focal length, which is a bit much for the aperture and pixel size but in good seeing the results are worth it. Some examples from last year attached.
Have Fun
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