Mono Jupiter - LRGB or Colour ZWO?

[MeSeany]

Was out tonight shooting Jupiter with my mono QHY5-ii - Ive made the process slicker and learnt a lot re barlows (using x2 and x3) - Firecapture - and post processing with PIPP, Regi 6 and Photoshop; loved every minute.

Now - Im thinking Id love to capture the giant in colour - so do I buy LRGBs and a wheel or a colour ZWO? I know going forward Id use the QHY5-ii as a guide cam re dso in conjunction with my DSLR - which I presume I could use my LRGBs with?

Feels like LRGBs would be higher quality and I could use them both with QHY for planets and DSLR re DSO.

Any thoughts?

[Leveye]

Great results I'd say! If you don't mind the extra effort if takes go with the mono ZWO for better results in the end. For me I dig the color one. You'll most likely have to use another program to de-rotate the images because of the extra time it takes to get the raw files and with the planets rotating. 

[MeSeany]

There my 3rd ever Astro pictures of anything so I'm chuffed

Are you sayng mono zwo over my mono qhy5?

[Astrosurf]

Good images!

Ditto for the derotation of images when taking time over filters. WinJupos is the software to derotate but it's horribly complicated and I ran away!   But you get more detail. I use the colour one as I can't be bothered with filters for planetary. Here are a couple I took. The seeing is all important and my processing could be better!

Alexxx

[MeSeany]

Ok - so colour camera... and as for dslr and deep space - no need for filters?

[Astrosurf]

If I'm right (and I should know!   ) the MC has an IR/UV filter but no other filter is needed. Unless someone has other ideas??

I don't use a filter for broadband images with the DSLR, except my Astronomik EOS Clip-in light pollution filter, but you can add narrowband clip-in filters such as Ha, OIII etc.

[Joseki]

It wouldn't help to use colour filters with a dslr unless it was some fancy custom job with the bayer layer scraped off. Filters and a mono planetary camera seems to give the best results if you are happy with the extra hassle.

[Joseki]

...and if you get a usb 3 version of the mono zwo that should help with the capture time, if your laptop's up to it.

[Freddie]

I'd also have a think about which planet you are going to image before spending more money as there aren't any around in a decent position for a while now.

[riklaunim]

I often shoot 2-3 luminance channels for Jupiter + 3 color channels (L, R, G, B, Yellow-longpass, Red-longpass; L needs dispersion corrector, yellow usually too!) and it fits in a relatively short window for WinJUPOS derotation (3000 frames for color channel, 4000-5000 for luminance channel, at around 60-50 FPS or bit more).

Only Mars and Venus allow very fast capture with a good frame quality. Jupiter depends on filter - on the edge. Saturn is just to dim, not to mention Uranus or Neptune. Sun/Moon are bright so those can go fast too. If you don't want to start RGB planetary imaging with a mono camera then start with mono IR imaging

[MeSeany]

I do want to do LRBG with my QHY5 - I think thats the way to go - I presume I could use these filters with my DSLR too for deep space?

I think LRGB is in the true spirit of things rather than a plug n play colour cam - whoops Ive got a dslr

[riklaunim]

There is no point in using RGB filters with a color sensors (like DSLR).