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

["TMWag" <cnstarz@earthlink.net>]

As anyone would say .. "the darker the sky the better"   There is a web
tool/ light pollution and a dark sky locator
http://www.darksky.org/ida/darksky/index.html

The darker the better!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Kearsley" <tim@cirrus.demon.co.uk>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:55 PM
Subject: [APML] Light pollution effect on film photography?


> 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
>
>
>
> --  APML Archives at <http://astro.umsystem.edu/apml/>  ---
>              Unsubscribe at <majordomo@seds.org>
>



--  APML Archives at <http://astro.umsystem.edu/apml/>  ---
             Unsubscribe at <majordomo@seds.org>