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Old 18-06-2012, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by rthorntn View Post
I already have a Canon 50d so I will try that out first. My main concern is light pollution being harder to deal with with on an SLR?
Photographing with a deep sky / light pollution / nebula filter in the optical path should help a lot. It's not narrow narrow band, and you still get colour as they pass Ha and O3 although it's a little shifted. I'm getting good results with this combo but using fast F ratios because the filters do reduce the total brightness significantly.

I reckon you would get reasonable results with a good ED refractor and a wide band filter in LP skies.
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