Also, cameras are much more sensitive and higher resolution if they are B&W. A colour camera has to have a bayer matrix filter in front of the pixels (or some other weird trick) which throws away a load of the light.
Generally, when telescopes want colour images, they will take several pictures with different filters in front of the telescope, then combine them. This is useful because you can have a wide selection of filters, including ones for specific science-related wavelengths, like hydrogen alpha, or oxygen emissions. A normal colour camera is limited to three filters.
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Also, cameras are much more sensitive and higher resolution if they are B&W. A colour camera has to have a bayer matrix filter in front of the pixels (or some other weird trick) which throws away a load of the light.
Generally, when telescopes want colour images, they will take several pictures with different filters in front of the telescope, then combine them. This is useful because you can have a wide selection of filters, including ones for specific science-related wavelengths, like hydrogen alpha, or oxygen emissions. A normal colour camera is limited to three filters.