Stacking Starlight

Advanced Topics — Cameras, Color & Filters

Advanced topics: the Bayer color mosaic, mono vs color cameras, narrowband filters, and RGB/LRGB/Hubble-palette color.

Deeper material once the fundamentals are in place: how color cameras reconstruct color from the Bayer mosaic, the trade-offs of mono vs one-shot-color sensors, how narrowband filters isolate emission lines to image through light pollution, and how color is assembled in RGB, LRGB, and the SHO Hubble palette. Each sub-page goes deep on one.