Filter for galaxies

[PhantomAstro]

Live in a fairly light polluted area any filters that will help with imaging galaxies and also keep star bloat down to a minimum?

 

Explore Scientific 102mm ED Triplet

Canon 1100D modded

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I image from a suburban garden, which has quite some LP, but I still manage to image galaxies, with a CLS clip filter in my (modded) EOS 550D. Got some quite decent results on M31 and M33 with my 80mm F/6 triplet and 0.8x reducer

This is a crop, and only represents about one hour of data. I also use a Meade SN6 6" F/5  Schmidt Newton, with ASI183MC and simple UV-IR block filter and get good results with many galaxies, especially by imaging near zenith whenever possible. The image below is 5h of data on the Leo Triplet

 

[Altair8389]

That looks very good. I think the stars look small and round, colour balance looks good. Maybe the galaxies lack a bit of detail and sharpness. I think this is a good effort in the pandemic.