First Light UHC-S filter

[jjjnettie]

I've been toying with the idea of buying a UHC filter to help combat the sky glow I get from the street lights to the North and West. Finally took the plunge and ordered it earlier this week. A Prostar UHC-S from Steve at MyAstroShop.
http://www.myastroshop.com.au/products/details.asp?id=MAS-001B2
I was suitably impressed with the quality of the build as well as it's performance.
Processing was a bit of a learning curve. Trying to get the colour balance right was challenging.

ED127, CDS1100D, 25x5min subs, DSS, CS3.

Higher res version here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_jjj_unprocessed_data/10084336676/sizes/o/

[LightningNZ]

The detail in the neb is great. Maybe use it as luminance and take unfiltered for colour?

I know your pain of dealing with LP. I'm thinking I have little choice but to make myself mobile to do more AP.

Cheers,
Cam

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Come up well jjj !:thumbsup:

A real bugger to balance the colours with filters.

Must drive you crazy with the street lights!
I only have cls filter for imaging in moonlight, ended up not using it for the colour balance problems.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp]

Very nice image, JJJ

[cometcatcher]

Nice pic JJJ. The neb looks great, the stars look a bit blue?

Justin, the CLS filter is a problem in moonlight. Moonlight sky is bluish and the CLS which is already blue biased only makes it worse. I find the Baader Semi-apo filter to be useful as it clips some of the blue spectrum, or even a plain light yellow filter.