light pollution filter

[mak90fan]

Hi can anyone please advise on whether it is worth purchasing a Light Pollution Filter for astrophotography?

Thanks John

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[lensman57]

Hi can anyone please advise on whether it is worth purchasing a Light Pollution Filter for astrophotography?

Thanks John

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Unless you are imagine from a true dark site, a very rare commodity in the UK, or are doing Narrow Band Imaging then I am afraid that it is mandatory to put a LP filter in the light path as close to the semsor as possible. Buy the best that you can afford. Baader Neodumium, Astronomik CLS CCD and IDAS are the names to look out for.

A.G

[Pete Presland]

i hardly ever image without from my back garden. the only time i dont use one is for widefield images, because they are much shorter at the moment i dont see the need.

[jarlaxle2k5]

Although im lucky enough to have a good dark sky in my backgarden i need to use this guy here:

http://www.firstlightoptics.com/light-pollution-reduction/skywatcher-light-pollution-filter.html

Unfortunately on the other side of my house there are a couple of those yellowish street lamp that made my pics full of noise.

That filter helped me a lot and now in my pics i dont see anymore that yellowish tinge from the street lamps.

Hope this helps.

[D4N]

Unless you are imagine from a true dark site, a very rare commodity in the UK, or are doing Narrow Band Imaging then I am afraid that it is mandatory to put a LP filter in the light path as close to the semsor as possible. Buy the best that you can afford. Baader Neodumium, Astronomik CLS CCD and IDAS are the names to look out for.

A.G

I put mine close to the imaging camera but wasn't aware that there is a specific reason to do this?

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[PeterCPC]

I always use a LPF except when imaging the Moon.

Peter