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This is a normal post When I say monochrome I mean the sensor just reads out intensity.
It can't generate colour images by itself, filters are required.
 (emptyspace, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 1:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Can't it? Why?
It detects light of various waveforms.

That's colour, to you.
 (SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 1:22, Reply)
This is a normal post yes
but the sensor itself doesn’t capture colour information, only the intensity of all light in a broad spectrum that is permitted through interchangeable filters. thus you could capture a hi res frame of ‘red’ light, by filtering all but red frequencies. then a frame of ‘blue’ light, then ‘green’. add them together and you’ll have something like an rgb image of the field. visible light isn’t as important as radio and xray though. these can be turned into some very pretty ‘colour’ images. but i expect you know this already.
 (ozof, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 10:33, Reply)
This is a normal post You could say the same thing about our eyes
Cones detect light within a certain band
 (SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 15:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Then that information is processed by our brain.
Perception is individual and relative to previous experience.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 30 Jul 2018, 15:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Sure; same thing for Hubble
Colour is light of different wavelengths. Hubble can detect different wavelengths. It processes that information. It can see colours.
 (SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 15:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Hubble is likely to be more consistent in its colours than we are.
The function of our cones varies.
I think we've been left arguing on the same side.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 30 Jul 2018, 15:59, Reply)
This is a normal post ok, so the point being made, since it apparently still eludes you,
is that the hubble’s ‘retinas’ consist only of ‘rods’, sensitive to the combined intensity of a broad spectrum of frequencies, specific colour information is not discernable, which is where filters come in.
 (ozof, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 21:53, Reply)
This is a normal post So what?
Colour is light of different wavelengths. Hubble can detect different wavelengths. It processes that information. It can see colours.
 (SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 22:53, Reply)
This is a normal post so you’re coming across as a belligerent dunce
by debating an important, albeit academic point about the way colour information is (post-) processed
here's a succinct cnet article to help you out
 (ozof, Mon 30 Jul 2018, 23:16, Reply)