Light Pollution Filters for Astrophotography
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Update May 21!
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In this video I talk about the two filters that I use for astrophotography, the SkyTech L Pro Max (for broadband targets) and the Altair Triband filter for really zeroing in on all that lovely detail in emission nebulas!
You can find the altair triband filter here:
www.altairastr...
(pssst, there's a raffle for a Triband filter happening at "the backyard astro imaging club on facebook...
here's the link : / tbaic )
and the Skytech L Pro Max filter here:
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and for those that are interested...the Altair magnetic filter holder:
www.altairastr...
Disclosure: Bear in mind that the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a few pennies (at no cost to you) which in turn helps to support the astro gadget habit and keep all the reviews coming :D
However at the end of the day the decision is always yours :) and whether you go through these links or not is entirely up to you.
As a beginner to this type of photography, filters are a bit of a minefield, I've seen a number of youtube vids but yours is the first I've seen which actually tells me which filter to use and for what. Excellent, thank you.
Glad it helped :)
No discussion about what filters I use as so far the answer is none, but for someone who is trying to figure out what do I need actually when looking to get some filter, this was super useful! Thank you so much for this Stace!
Happy to help! :)
I feel like a wolly now after asking you about light pollution filters on IG 😂 I must have missed this video! This literally answers all my questions on light pollution filters - living outside London I’ve had exactly the same problem and have been so confused by all the info out there on the types of filters to get. This really simplifies all of that info and summarises it so nicely so beginners like me can get a straight answer 🙏 I haven’t been able to find any videos out there that can give filter recommendations and show personal experience from their uses whilst summing up what they’re best for like you have - thanks Stacey for putting out such helpful, simple to understand content 🙌👏
Our current global 'situation' has prompted me to do some astrophotography, as the sky is incredibly clear right now. I watched your video and was blown away by how much I learned about filters. Clear explanations of the uses for each, with great photo examples. I rarely comment. But you deserve it. Thank you : )
excellentr video stacey , opend my eyes
Thank you so much for the good review. I use Optolong L-Pro and Optolong L-Enhance filters
Hi Staca, I'm I just at work finish my lunch, watching on Light pollution filter, I found it informative, as I lived greeter London under Bortle class 8 skies, many thanks, and clear skies 🌠🙂
Great Video Stace! As we get more light pollution everywhere, these LP filters are the only way we can take pictures!
Indeed Ray! It's a bit sad really that light pollution is taking over but at least we have these filters :)
I am very impressed!!! I have the 269c and have been wanting a light pollution filter and this is what I am going to get!!!!!!!!!
Excellent explanation of these filters, thank you.
Thanks very much, glad it was useful!
Great images and advice! I live in a red zone and an L-pro was my first filter, I have been happy with it. Clear skies
Thank you 😁 clear skies to you too!
Thanks AstroStace .Excellent tutorial .
Great vid Stace. See Altair have a V2 Tri Band. Wonder how that stacks up against V1
Thanks AstroStace, i ordered the Skytechbased on your recommendation, I cant wait to try it! Keep up the great work.
Very interesting video and great results. Thank you & cs. :)
Hi Stacey. Thats a strange coincidence, i was reading about fillters today. They all seem to overlap each other's benefits, somewhere along the line, making it hard to choose. Pity we cant get a filter for cloud pollution, lol. Thanks for sharing your filter knowledge. Clear sky's.
Hi Melvin! Haha I must have been having a psychic moment . Yeah they do overlap a touch...but I think I've managed to seperate them out a bit here :) definitely need a cloud filter haha
After watching this video, I am a new subscriber. Great work!
Thank you , glad to help :)
@@AstroStace well I appreciate all the help I can get, lol. I am new to astrophotography, saving up right now to get a star tracker. So I am trying to learn as much as I can, so that once I get started, I can hit the ground running. People like you, Helena, Rory, Nico, Trevor, Dylan, and Delta Astrophotography, all of y'all are doing a fantastic job of introducing people to the night sky again. I have always loved looking at the stars, and I took my dad and my two daughters down to South Carolina in 2017 to see the solar eclipse in totality. That is something none of us will ever forget! I am also getting my daughter's into taking pictures of the night sky, as well as just taking pictures in general. Do you ever do any planetary imaging? If so, what equipment do you use for that?
Hi Stacey, thank you for another informative video! Keep up the good work!
I use the Baader Moon & Sky glow filter for broadband, and the Optolong L-Enhance (dual pass) for narrowband. Thanks for sharing, Stace!
Great filters Enrique! Seems the dual band pass filters are very popular!
Wish I could give this video two thumbs up!
The tri-band filter looks really good. I hope I can get one for a test in the nearby future.
Excellent Tutorial Stace!,I'm using the Altair Astro Quad-Band OSC filter 2".
Thanks Stace, You're not kidding you need a good LP filter if you live in Brum! This is a well timed video for me as I'm in the market for a LP clip filter. The SkyTech looks like a good shout. Cheers. I own an ancient 1.25" Skywatcher LP filter but it would of course vignette with a camera with an APS-C sensor.
I see you keep fish too! I'm trying to pluck up the courage to setup a salt water reef tank in 2020. What fish are you keeping?
4:00 gorgeous! 7:20 spectacular! 8:40 lovely!
Thanks so much Michael!
Cool video for the beginner like me...very informative. Now for the newbie question.......what kind of camera is that in the video?
Thanks for the education, Stace. I'm not an AP guy per se but enjoy the explanations nevertheless. Good to know for future applications!
Just found your channel, Im not too far away, in Harrogate. Keep up the good work
Love your pup in the background!
Thanks Rick! She’s the star of the show! 🐶
Would you be able to do a no filter then a w/filter comparison. Similar specs on both shots. What Bortle are your skies?
L Pro Max is great - thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks for the help and great photos!
Hi I own several filters currently, uhc, EOS clips skytech quad band, and a 2 'l pro optlong. I was thinking of getting a narrower band filter so I could learn the technique (here I would ask you to tell me how) to add photos taken with different filters. I am undecided whether to take a 2 'quad band or a tri band to be used in combination with the uhc and lpro filter. (Remember to show me the technique for processing, thanks)
Hi, i've been pushing the limits of my canon M50 and sigma 150-600mm lens with jupiter and saturn images
i'm shooting from north london so i was wondering what pollution filter would be best for planetary images, the camera is as standard
thanks
The Skytech L Pro Max looks almost identical to the Optolong L-Pro
I am lucky enough to live in a bortle class 4 area in Wales but I used to live in Manchester. I have an Astronomik CLS CCD clip filter for my modified DSLR. It made a massive difference when I lived in the city but I still use it even though it is not so effective for LED street lights, it keeps dust off the sensor if nothing else.
Ah yes the CLS :) a good filter, I started off with one of those but I found it a bit harsh and therefore needed more colour balancing...but it works so all good!
Great explanation and images. How much longer in % would you say you have to expose when using each of these filters?
Hi Stacey, great video. Would you use the SkyTech LPRO max constantly in line with the other filters or one at a time?
Excellent pictures!! I want to take pictures like that! I have a Celestron Nexstar 8SE, which light pollution filtres do you recommend to me to visual and astrophotography? Thank you in advance!
Thank you for the video. I assume 2" Skytech pro is a 52mm filter size correct? It can be attached to a camera lens of that size.
Excellent Tutorial. thank you for sharing.
thank you :D
Nice review. But as those filters do block UV and IR, would you remove the filter which sits in front of the sensor itself?
Nice, been looking at the optolong versions of these. What bortle skies were them photos at?
Amazing photos as well as the information ,so would you say , if i was to get some filters , these would be the ones to get ? thank you again
Stacey I'm using the CLS CCD filter but I live in 8 brotle London but I just bought the tri-band filter I hope it works better than the one I have now .your 7 brotle or 8 like me ?
Hi Ryan! Best remember the triband is best for emission nebulas :) I’m bortle 6-8 depending on what direction I shoot.
@@AstroStace I see how it goes :)
Hello Stacy, Will Altair magnetic filter holder work for ZWO 294 MC Camera please?
Your pup is adorable
Thank you 😁
I don't really consider the Triband and Quadband to be 'light pollution filters' any more than I do an Ha, SII or OIII filters to be light pollution filters. However, they do the job, so why not?
One of the things that I WOULD like to see if the processing bit for the Ha channel in the Horsehead nebula shot, and how it's combined with the RGB image. In fact, I would like to see a narrowband data set combined with a RGB dataset from the Altair 264 camera. Is there any reason you can't assign the Ha, Hb and OIII to just about any color you want? The 'false color palette', as it were.
You are a great asset to the community, Stace, and I'm glad I found your channel.
Yes Gary :) see the quadband/triband is a bit of a grey one. It's absolutely killer for light pollution if you want to just stack it as is...but like you said it becomes way more than that if you split the channels :)
All those horse head images were on the 269 😁 I'll do a little video on how I combined the RGB with the Ha soon.
@@AstroStace thanks for the upcoming video. The 296, 264, whatever. I guess you probably had to send the 264 back to Altair, but I like the fact that it has no sensor glow. Probably will be my camera when I can start getting back into the game again.
I really do appreciate all you do.
@@GaryMCurran thanks Gary! No I actually still have it with me :) trying to get a couple more images with it so I can do a balanced review :)
I've been using the Optalong L-eNhance dual band filter (Ha and OIII) from light polluted Milton Keynes. Very happy with it for Ha Nebulae. Also have a Astronomik CLS-CCD filter which while good does suffer somewhat from Light Pollution and the colours need a lot of balancing. Will be looking at a L-PRO. Optalong do one as do SkyTech and others
i found exactly the same when i used a CLS filter previously...i wasnt keen on the colour balance and thus moved to the L Pro Max :)
Great presentation. I have a question for you regarding the AutoScript video you made recently. Did you pay for the 1-1 help online with Paul and is he good about communicating with you when you have a question? Thank you and please keep making vidoes. You are a good with presenting information in a logical progression.
Hi Johnathan! Paul is actually a friend of mine and lives not far away, so if I need help I usually just drop him a message on Facebook. Are you having an issue or just worried that the support won't be there? I can prod him to get him to get in contact with you if that helps :)
You should show a with and without example because the filter is over 100 pounds.
Hi what telescope do you use?
hi there im a member of birmingham astronomical society i can recommend them
What do you mean by visual use?
I have the skytech cls-ccd filter on a modified DLSR. II think its too aggressive. Will the L Pro Max be the same or better?
Personally I started off with the sky tech cls ccd clip in filter for my dslr. I also found it too aggressive, switched to the skytech l pro max... much better! :)
g`day stace great video i live in sydney in oz under bortel 8 skies much like you by the looks and i have had good results with the baader moon and skyglow neodymium and IR cut filter and the baader UHC- s filter for nebulas (marc dantonio got the UHC-S for his live streams and was very impressed with the filter) the baader filters seem like good value and quality for the price both great for visual and imaging i have become a bit of a baader fan boy since buying their click locks and and t2 fittings and filters i am thinking about one of their t2 star diagonals a zeiss prisms @$272 usa i think they are the entry level to the best quality filters without spending $300 to $600 on a single filter
may your skies be clear and your neighbours outside lights be broken lol
cheers
james D
Cheers James! I'll take a looky at those filters, have heard good things about the UHC-S also! Clear skies to you and fingers crossed no neighbours security lights also
Thanks for the info and great video to watch. Fantastic images you took. Are they available in amazon to buy? I've got the Pixel 4 smartphone now and got first taste of its amazing astrophotography mode and I can Say WOW!!! The Stars look so impressive and it's high end DSLR quality. Under light pollution it's impressive. Can't wait till under dark sky in highlands of Scotland to really test it. I can see why it's getting so much hype and it can photograph the Aurora northern lights. Pixel 4 is amazing for astrophotography!!! You stay safe please turning this time with the Coronavirus spreading every where!!
My solution to light pollution is to angrily yell at street lights till they burn out i will let you know when i have any success.
A well placed pellet shot works better 😅
£150 filter?
Got anything to get through clouds ? sighs its all I see