Imaging DSO's with bright moon

[NickRose2006]

I might finally have a clear night tonight but the moon is up and is 83% full. The question is, should I go out and do some imaging. I have both the Astronomik UHC and CLS filter. Do both of these help out with filtering out the moon light.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Is the Moon 83% full tonight?

I saw it earlier and thought maybe about 60-70%.

[NickRose2006]

Is the Moon 83% full tonight?

I saw it earlier and thought maybe about 60-70%.

I was going by the DSO Browser site.

[LukeSkywatcher]

I was going by the DSO Browser site.

I dont dispute it. I just didnt think it was that much.

I'd loved to have gone out and had a look because it was all i could see through the cloud. The terminator looked great naked eye.

I just checked. You are correct. It is 83% full.

Maybe i need new glasses.

[Ibbo!]

Try to image something as far away from the moon as pos

at worst case its worth trying just to iron out the bugs in the system IMHO

[RobH]

Imaging small bright objects in RGB such as planetary nebulae is possible in bright moonlight, and imaging clusters is also OK, but faint extended objects tend to get washed out.

Narrowband imaging in bright moonlight is possible, but even then it's best to image an object that's as far away from the moon as possible.

The smaller the bandwidth of the NB filter, the less the moonlight will affect the image.

Cheers

Rob

[Shibby]

That moon's driving me loopy! There are some great clear skies forecast over the next few days so I was hoping for my first chance to try out my new LP filter and coma corrector (since Santa brought me them). Tried this weekend, but exposures look so washed out!

Might try out a few clusters as you suggest though, Rob - should be a good test of the coma corrector...