Re: [APML] Light pollution effect on film photography?

["Bobby Middleton" <bobm@koyote.com>]

There are several list members who have done fine work with light pollution
reduction filters such as the IDAS filters. You can try some of those either
on piggyback camera lenses or at prime focus.
Bobby Middleton

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Kearsley <tim@cirrus.demon.co.uk>


> Hi all,
>
> First of all, thanks to those who responded to my request a few days ago
> about the Sprintscan 4000 scanner.
>
> As a newcomer to film astrophotography, I would value the opinion of the
> experienced people on this list about how serious is the effect of light
> pollution on film photography.
>
> I live on the outskirts of a town, with other villages and towns around,
and
> my sky, certainly in three directions, has that awful orange glow of
sodium
> lamps seeping up from the horizon.  I would estimate that limiting visual
> magnitude at the zenith is around 4.0 - 4.5.  I suppose my question really
> is how damaging that degree of pollution is to photography with film.  I
> know that planetary and lunar photography is largely unaffected by such
> factors, but I use a CCD for such work anyway!  What I would love to take
is
> wide vistas of star fields and objects such as the North America nebula.
> Are such aims impossible from my type of location?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Tim Kearsley
> Northamptonshire
> England
>
>
>
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