can i do deep sky imaging in summer?

[Astroblagger]

Hello iv only been doing astrophotography since the autumn last year, just wandered if it is worth doing it in the summer in the few hours of darkness that we will have? or is it too bright?

[MikeD]

Yes, I image all year round.

You have to take what you can get with our weather.

Mike.

[Big Dipper]

Your latitude will play a big part in answering that question. I'm at just below 52° N & can normally image for a couple of hours at the Summer Solstice. The further north you are though, the more difficult it becomes & many UK-based imagers are forced to give up until the onset of August.

[Sparrow]

I'm at 53 degrees and I find I can't really image between late May and late mid July - the sky doesn't really get dark enough for deep sky work. I did manage some decent images from mid August onwards last year though

[Demonperformer]

Certainly plenty of open clusters around, which don't require such long imaging times as nebulae/galaxies, and these should certainly be baggable.

[ollypenrice]

Latitude is everything. Down here at Lat 44 I get four hours of astronomical darkness even on the shortest night of the year.

Olly

[quantumpanda]

Interesting topic. I didn't think about this being an issue.