Color Filter Array (CFA) Processing
Color cameras do not require filter wheels to produce color but require some unique image processing techniques.
An observation made of the first edition was its lack of emphasis on using conventional digital (color) cameras. It is easy to get hung up on these things but the camera is just one part of a vast array of other equipment, software and processes that are common, regardless of the choice. Whether or not a camera is a DSLR (or mirror-less model) or a dedicated CCD, it is still connected to a telescope, power and a USB cable. There are some differences though; some snobbery and also misleading claims about the inefficiency of color cameras: For an object that is not monochromatic, there is ...
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