Astrophotography in Bortle 6 Light Polluted Skies.
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- I will show you two sets of images taken a night apart and compare them with a light pollution filter and without a light pollution filter. A good filter is a necessity if photographing in a not so dark sky. Watch the video for my favorite filter.
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Very well done Amy! Love how you processed!
Thanks so much! 😊
You are so very inspiring, keep em coming xx
Thank you so much! Hope you are doing well. Stay safe and clear skies.
Great content - now subscribed ! best Simon
it looks like a heart!!the heart nebula!!
NIce Job Amy!!!
Thank you Mr AstroWorld TV! Great show this week!
Hello Amy, your videos are so educational, greetings from Monterrey Mexico
Hello Mexico! I hope all is well your way. Thank you for watching the videos!
Awesome video Amy. Glad I found your channel. One thing I do notice, at 9:55 you can definitely see what the filter does to brighter stars with the halo. I still prefer the filter images, of course!
Yes! Thank you!
Great M42 with that filter Amy. I need to get one but it has been mostly cloudy here in North Carolina and I am not stuck at home, I run a produce department at a grocery store so I have been working overtime every week and it has been crazy. I did have one clear night but was too tired to take the equipment out and set it up so I hope this stuff goes away soon.
Thank you so much for keeping the groceries stocked! Clouds here also. I have not been out since January!
I just subscribed to your channel. I have a low budget and can't afford to get the equipment I need to produce images like the kind you demonstrate on your videos. However; after having viewed a ton of astrophotography and astrophotographer videos; I can't help but feel you do an excellent job at explaining what you are doing, and how to do it. So glad to see a female doing this. That is so rare! Thank you!
I love the image, very nice. I agree about the blue and I was wondering how hard would it be to incorporate some of the images that did not use a filter. Funny how people see things differently, my wife likes the one with out the filter.
I reprocessed the image and I was at fault for losing some of the blue. lol Sometimes I need to be more gentle with the sliders.
Very nice picture of the Running Man and Orion Nebulae. The methods you use to validate your results are well executed; I like that. Wish we were Bortle 6... In this part of Dallas/Fort Worth we are sitting at Bortle 8
Thank you very much! I am surprised at what I capture with filters.
Nice images Amy. I picked up the Quad band version. Works much better than a standard LPR filter.
Cool 👍
Great video! Wow what a difference
Thanks for watching!
@@AmyAstro I know you mentioned LED lights in your video but I still hafta ask... in my area I have a high school with the athletic fields north of me by about three blocks, a large shopping center a couple of miles south and Philadelphia and our local town eight miles east of my location. Yay me!!!! Would this filter help improve my images or would I need something with a little more oomph? New to AP so apologies if this is a silly question.
@@jameswoods1939 Hi! I recently moved to an even worse light polluted area. My back yard is a sports recreation park filled with LED lights. I can say Yes, the Triband filter cuts through all of the yuck. Follow me over on facebook and instagram. I have an example of the bubble nebula taken with no filter, triband and Lpro all on the same night, in the new LED polluted yard. facebook.com/AmyAstroAdventures or instagram.com/amy_astro_photography/
Cheers!
Thanks Amy. I'll put it in my budget. Imaging from last week was truly horrible with my surrounding LP. Keep the videos coming 🙂
Wanted to see if no filter astrophotography was worth it because I wanted to stay in budget and this is seriously encouraging thank you for the video! Most people told me you can't get anything from the city but in the final results I'm not even sure I like the filter more. I love all the extra green and blue in the no filter one!
Glad it was helpful! I will be posting another video this week showing you what filter vs no filter can do for you in a very light polluted yard. Thanks for watching.
@@AmyAstro Definitely tuning in for that :)
Just a great pic, ty keep them up. Have not had a clear sky sense i received my new mount a week ago...sadface! Im missing venus and Pleiades! Any chance you can get a few pics?
Sadly I have not. I have trees blocking my view. There have been some great ones on Facebook this week. Thank you for watching. Hope you get clear skies soon. Share pics over on my facebook page. I love seeing what folks create.
Watching alot of your videos and CJ's. Stuck inside under quarenteen. I hope this goes away soon. Going outta my mind. Sick as a dog. Great video
Thank you for spending time with us! I hope you feel better soon. No fun being stuck at home and sick. Take care!
Very nice Amy. What's you opinion on the L-eNhance filter?
I own one, and have not used it yet. I plan on trying it with Orion very soon. Will keep you posted.
Altair Astro also do a Quad band filter, the difference being it splits the sodium separate from the h alpha for less light polluted skies
Yes they do. I hear wonderful things about it also.
Yes seen a few results, need darker skies they say the Tri Band seems to work well enough
I heard Light Pollution filters don't (can't) help with LED lights, which unfortunately now is what is quickly replacing the old bulbs. So for me they won't help :(
thank you for the video! the issue i have is the various neighbors that all use LED lights, i need to target that!
Yeah I know that feeling. So far the filters have been working for me.
Have you compared the tri-band vs optolong l-eNhance dualband vs the new triad quad-band that came out. $1073 is a steep price tag
Not yet. It is on my list of things to do when the nebulas come back in my yard. I am very happy with the Altair Astro Tri-Band filter. It was about $250
Amy Astro I just learned something from the land sea sky website that sells this. There is a triband and quad band filter. Triband must a marketing rewording of Duoband bc it is the two peaks of OIII and the single Ha peak. The optolong L-Nhance says the same peaks filtered. There is a quad filter version that incorporates the SII “but it doesn’t recommend it for high pollution areas probably bc of SII susceptibility to light pollution” (from Chuck’s astrophotography). My backyard is Bortle 6 but next to the airport so I would really say a 7.
The left photo has more stars and the blue isn't filtered out. Your exposure times seem really high. Are you factoring in noise?
Not too much. I've accepted some noise, and can usually process it out.
I like the increase in quality using the LP filter but unfortunatelyI also see more halo effects surrounding the bright stars using the filter.
RobboRob67 I think a lot of that was my processing. I see other images online without that issue. I’m going to try that edit again.
I wish I only had Class 6 skies
oh no! Hope you find some dark skies.
@@AmyAstro Fortunately, I'm in AZ and we do have a few dark corners to be had.
I have the same filter and am very disappointed with it. The metal ring is made of very cheap material to begin with. After using it just a few times the thread broke and the filter is stuck now in the filter wheel.
I'm sorry to hear that. So far mine has been great. I will keep an eye one it for sure.
Sorry Amy .... I do prefer the "no filter image". In the pink one all the Oxygen nebulosity is gone so no blue remain. But booth are nice congratulation.
I'm thinking of combining the data from both to recover some of the blue. I also think I ran the SCNR step when I probably did not need it. Thank you for the comment.
@@AmyAstro You do pretty good job Amy. I'm so glad you share all those nice tricks, very useful. Take care.
I have to agree with Pierre. The one with filter does look better in a way, but the unfiltered one has so much more variation in color and that, overall, looks much better to me, in my opinion. Both look great and much better than I can do!
@Pierre I'm just wondering, do you prefer 'no filter images' taken under LP skies or generally? Because I live in B 5/6 polluted sky and pictures without any filters are.. not that impressive as Amy's ones..
I wonder what it's like in bortle 9...
Only one way to find out. Bortle 9 does sound brutal.
@@AmyAstro yeah I'm asking cuz I tried time and time again in bortle 9 and it's impossible for me to g t good astrophotos, so I wonder if someone way more experienced than me can do it and if so how.
@@imblack011 Yeah I hear folks doing it, but have not seen the results. If I find any real proof I will let you know. Best of luck.
This is the filter I use!
www.altairastro.com/altair-triband-osc-ccd-2-filter-322-p.asp?ref=tc&fbclid=IwAR29gIxTggtr6o6yFdan0Qkax0AG4_fnEe4k4YAyfgvsaPw-2lnnhNIikv8
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I'm also having fun dealing with my cat who thinks I'm now his permanent bed working from home.
Love cat interference.
Well guess i need a tri-band
I'm happy so far.
I seem to be the first all the time , thats what happens when your home
Steve Hand yeah Steve! Thank you!!!
Sorry, but i think that with filter you lost the Blue light of the image!
Yes, I agree I did lose a lot of the blue. This has me thinking what if I added Oiii data from a mono camera. It is fun knowing there are no real rules. Thank you for commenting!