Combining CCD and DSLR images?

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Being in a pensive mood and playing with Starry Night Pro I've been thinking again, which is usually dangerous, about layering an image from the mono CCD as a luminance layer for the colour data from the DSLR.

The reasoning is as follows:-

I haven't got RGB filters yet.

I think that its usual to bin the colours 2X.

The CCD will get an excellent detailed B&W image.

The DSLR could get a colour image with noise problems.

So the plan is to "Pimp my DSLR images" by using the CCD to sharpen the edges up a bit. Any obvious reasons that it won't work?

Captain Chaos

[Jamie]

Hi CC

Astroscot2 is in the process of doing just that with some images that i took

with the MX7 and the 350D (can't wait to see how it turns out)

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Phew, that's a relief! Might not be such a dumb idea if I'm not the first to think of it.

Captain Chaos

[Jamie]

You have no idea about the possibilities with this one CC.

I have seen a couple of mediocre images turned into fantastic images

using this method...