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Originally Posted by Starkler
In dark rural skies I can see things in my 50mm finder scope that I have trouble seeing in suburban skies with 10" of aperture.
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That's pretty depressing..... I do some work at a field site about 30 minutes from here (Mildura) and when I'm out there before dawn, the milky way literally goes from horizon to horizon, I would never have believed it if I hadn't seen it (multiple times) with my own eyes. Haven't had the scope out there though.
Still, I know from visiting family that my own backyard in Mildura has darker skies than anywhere within quite a distance of Adelaide....
So do any of the 'light pollution' filters actually work? I would have thought it wouldn't be too difficult to create a filter that blocks the sodium lines alone.