LP Plough

[GordonCopestake]

Took some test shots tonight with my D70. This is the plough with a 30 second exposure, f/3.5 18mm lens. You can see how bad the light pollution is at my location.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Filters mate, make all the difference.

http://stargazerslounge.co.uk/index.php?topic=5322.0

When I had no filters I got red all over the place, but it goes away with processing.

Captain Chaos

[Rob]

Blimey Gordon, thats shocking :shock:. Do you live next to a motor way?.

Filters indeed CC. I totally agree. And I take my hat off to you Gordon for practicing the hobby with LP like that matey!.

Rob

[GordonCopestake]

I did have a baader moon and skyglow filter, but what you can't see in that image is that the streetlights around me have been replaced by white ones so for visual it makes no difference. Although the orange glow comes from the nearby city and yes the motorway. I live about half a mile away from J15 on the M6

I might re-purchase the moon and skyglow filter at some point as it seems there is still a lot of orange in my sky!

[Rob]

Any way of causing a power cut!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

What ISO setting was that Gordon? I want to try mine with the same settings to see how it comes out.

TIA

Captain Chaos

[GordonCopestake]

i left it at ISO 200 because i thought any more sensitive and i'de need to reduce the exposure. I have it in my head that a longer exposure is better than a higher ISO setting as the data is "real" if that makes sense. I could be wrong though