Stargazing Glaswegian Gaza

Tonight while stargazing a variety of light pollution factors became apparent. The moon, the street lights, the lights in neighbors houses, car lights and on and on and on. I finally moved behind a tree to shield me from some of these annoyances and wished I had a better solution. Outside of physically moving to a remote area, are there any techniques you employ to deal with light pollution?

What I Am doing to block out neighbours lights being my next door neighbour is Get out a old curtin and hang it up on the washing line and use trees ect where needed I find it blocks out the light well enough. Also to enhance night sky contrast i would higly recomend for your telescope as it works well on smaller scopes is the (as I use it on my 130eq md (not that I use the MD yet manual is fine for me)) BAADER NEODYMIUM & IR Cut filter from

http://www.sherwoods-photo.com/baader_planetarium/baader_filters_fs.html

I use this company as my astronomy service now if they have what i require as I can not fault their personal customer service, it is first class as is there advice. They bend over backwards to make sure you get what you are after even if not in stock. THe filter also works as a good planetary filter although you may want a darker MOON filter when observing the moon as it can be very bright when fully illuminated and when it is it is the best thing to view as everything is drowned out by it's light.

And this month in from the 22~24th it will be the closest it gets to Earth and will be massive to look at I can't wait for that!

You could ask the above mentioned company Via Telephone or email probably telephone what would be best and get their recommendation for Light pollution but make sure you state what kind of telescope you are using.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Mr Gazza.