Hey all. I just experienced my first dark sky the other day, and WOW that made a difference to my typical photography session. I know I won't ever reach that kind of quality from the burbs but I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to help against light pollution from the city?
I live unfortunately directly west of the Port of Brisbane and my only decent view is towards the east, which means many interesting objects are obscured by a glow of sodium vapour lamps. I've seen recommendations to shoot narrowband however I'm working with a DSLR here and one thing I've noticed is an epic lack of Ha response in the sensor so doing that won't work too well. Likewise the UHC may be out of the question for the same reason as it seems to pass only OIII and Hb within the spectral sensitivity of my camera.
Does anyone out there have any ideas? Any examples of how badly a UHC would affect an unmodded DSLR camera's performance? I've seen ranges from "barely" to "don't bother".
Or maybe it's time to move to the country.
