What do you think about this plan for remote imaging?

I think you'll find the OSC camera will have greater utility under dark skies shooting broadband. All you'll need will be a uv/ir cut filter. Under light pollution you'll be shooting with narrowband filters and so the mono cam would be at an advantage in that situation.

I have the 2600MC Pro and 2600MM Pro. 

I just bought the MM Pro and am new to mono imaging. My plan is to send my Askar 120 APO to remote observatory with the 2600MC to do widefield mosaics with the 0.8x reducer. 

I plan to keep my mono system at home to use with the new Askar SQA55 quintuplet in my light polluted neighborhood to get used to working with mono. 

The ultimate goal is to send the SQA55 to piggyback on the bigger scope remotely, but I want to learn more about mono first. 

Do you think sending the OSC camera first makes sense? Or am I wasting precious pixels by sending a OSC instead of a mono camera? Does anyone have experience shooting from bortle 1 with OSC? Do you do it unfiltered?

You didn't say where you want to put your scope.  My advice is to try to start out at a remote site where you can get your feet wet with remote imaging without having to travel by airline to get there.   If it's not really distant, it will be easier to visit and it will be easier to try out whatever you want.  Try the OSC camera for a while to see how you like it.  If the site is relatively easy to visit, then you can swap out the camera for a monochrome set up when you are ready.  Remote imaging can be challenging so start out with a location where it's relatively easy to visit so that you can deal with change and options while you figure it out.  

John

if it were me, I would be sending the OSC camera and keeping the mono at home… an OSC camera under B1 skies will capture absolutely incredible images in natrual light, and your mono camera with narrowband filters will capture incredible images under almost any sky conditions..

As someone who has both mono and OSC cameras in Bortle 5 skies at home, and I've taken both to dark skies, I can tell you that the OSC camera struggles at home in B5, but in B2 or darker, the difference for broadband targets is minimal… Yes.. resolution blah blah blah - but on the whole - the OSC camera will make just as impressive an image from B1 as a mono camera until you zoom the image to 100%, then there's probably a 15~20% improvement looking at the mono image.

But at home, the mono camera produces images 50% better than the OSC camera… Moreso in narrowband…


Learn your mono camera at home, then, once you have a good handle on it, buy another mono camera, send that to the remote observatory, and sell the OSC camera at that point.