>>4269880>are lp filters worth it anymore now with led lights ?i looked into this since you asked, and prolly not. this is the transmission curve for the filter i'd considered, it really seems specific to old streetlights and it just another piece of glass in the optical path. something could be said for narrowband filters, but one of those will blow my current budget and it's not necessary right now
>>4270329>simply driving an hour away from the nearest city is probably more effective for your data collectionyeah, according to the 2022 light pollution data, there are apparent pockets of near total darkness with 1/2 hr of my small city, including a small nature preserve i could prolly get permission to image at in the dead of night, over an estuary with maybe 2 houses max
the mount and tripod are the purchases i'm willing to invest the most in, with the caveat that i'll prolly wanna save a bit now and upgrade to an equatorial mount and an apochromatic refractor at some point. for now, the top priority is to practice solar imaging for the eclipse
