Light Pollution and night scapes

[Dom1961]

Will light pollution stop me from doing night scapes/space shapes? (I don't know what they're called

[NGC 666]

You won't be able to get the most striking images we all know and love - showing every bit of detail in the milky way. But, you can get quite pretty shots of constellations and star trails. You can remove - to a certain degree - the light pollution in post processing. If you can see the milky way, the camera can too, but the Moon is slowly making its way towards ruining any chance of seeing the milky way. You can also image the brightest DSOs. Other than that, you'll have to get away from light pollution.

So, in short, the answer is no. But it will limit you and make things difficult with the extra gradient it causes in images.

[wxsatuser]

Get a decent LP filter and it will work wonders.

[brrttpaul]

Or failing that try ETTR (expose to the right) type it in on youtube and have a look

[Pete Presland]

I would also get a light pollution filter, but as Paul has said the you tube videos show what can be done from the poorest sites. the "expose to the right" simply means the histogram is way over to the right and corrected during processing.