>>2861821>>2861827the milky way is actually mostly a brownish color, since a lot of it is cosmic dust. There is plenty of color the be had in the sky, but its the result of stacked long exposures and boosted saturation and contrast. Also a lot of nebulae and the like are deep red (the hydrogen-alpha emission line, ~656nm), which is right on the edge of where IR-blocking filters in most cameras start cutting off the light.
Also yeah, light pollution tends to turn everything an ugly orange color, because we insist on festooning our towns and highways with sodium vapor lamps. There are dedicated light-pollution filters for telescopes that cut that frequency, or you can get the poor-man's version, an "intensifier" filter. Those are advertised as for making reds more vibrant, not for astro, but they happen to cut the same frequency band. A 58mm one is like $35 new.
