Mono and Colour Camera

[Z3roCool]

Hi there, just wondered if a plan I have is worth doing? I currently have a 1600MM Pro that I use with my 400mm camera lens. I live in Bortle 6 sky and RGB is terrible (and have read bad things using 2 filters - RGB with LP) NB is brilliant but would like to try and get some more natural images. 

My thought was to get a 294MC camera to shoot colour with an LP filter in an adapter then shoot a load of Ha to add to image as a detail layer. Maybe even bin the colour 2x2. The camera is similar FOV so should work okay. 
 

Does that make sense or am I being daft? Just wanted to Sanity check the idea. 
 

Tom. 

[geordie85]

There's nothing wrong with that. I've added ha to rgb images with (what I think) decent results. 

These were both taken under a full moon. 

[rickwayne]

Oh yeah, absolutely. Hydrogen acquisition is really robust to LP and moonlight so you can grab a crap-ton of it, on nights when nothing else would work, and so long as you're working on primarily emission targets it's really going to pay off.

Heck, you might even find yourself seduced to the black and white side.