I haven't used my old Celestron Minus-V filter onb our refractor yet. The color hasn't been all of that objectionable. However, in the next month or so we are hoping to use a QHY camera to image Mars and Jupiter through the Clark. Will the image be better than a larger SC or modern APO refractor...no probably not. But it would be historic!
Serious response. If you are going to have a go at imaging with it, the best thing you can do is simply throw out the poorly corrected blue channel, or don't capture it at all if you are planning on using a mono camera and filters. If you are going to use an OSC (color) camera, use a minus violet type filter (even a simple #8 pale yellow is adequate) to prevent the de-focused blue light from affecting the green and red channels via color bleed. Throw out the blue channel, and reconstruct it from red and green:
B_synthetic = 2G - R
This is an astonishingly good approximation. See some examples here.
This can be done live in SharpCap (color cameras only), by the way, which also supports live stacking and sharpening of planetary images. PM me if you are interested in discussing how to use either feature.
Edited by Borodog, 30 January 2025 - 05:15 PM.