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Old 25-03-2009, 11:21 AM
pjphilli (Peter)
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Hi Vincent
I image in a Sydney suburb backyard and my site suffers from light pollution from sodium lights on the highway, mercury street lights and neighbor's fluro lights (why do they leave them on half the night?).
I use an Idas LPS-P2 light pollution filter as a permanent attachment.
I found that this increases exposure times by about twice but the advantage of getting nice dark sky images as against the milky pre-filter images is a definite advantage. Also I find that the use of a pier on which my HEQ5-Pro mount is permanently attached saves a lot of setting up and polar alignment time. Go for it!
Cheers Peter
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