Posts Made By: Ivan Gastaldo

Nice shot Ido!
Thank you for sharing! 8)

Keep it up!

Beautiful shot Jason!
Quite an interesting object indeed... thanks!

Question... how long were your subs?

Great shot John! very interesting animal indeed...
Question... why would these crocs be breed? What are these people doing with them?

BEAUTIFUL! 8)

Happy Thanksgiving to you, Dawn! 8)

Gobble, Gobble! 8)
Beautiful Turkey, Tyler!

Clear skies to you, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Awesome shot Thomas!
Love the dust clouds! 8)

Thank you for sharing!

Great shot Eric! 8)
Thank you for sharing!

Hello James, and thanks for bringing a great question to the forum...

What I'm going to say is simply MY OPINION, and nothing else, please take it with a grain of salt... 8)

Lets start with saying that for DSOs, nothing is better than truly dark skies...

I live under Mag 3.5-4.0 skies, and after much trial & error have decided, IMHO, that it really is not worth to image DSOs under these skies, unless these DSOs are very bright and located at the Zenith. The light pollution quickly fills up my CCD in such a way that any faint detail is washed up. (not to mention that the background gets lit up!)

If you plan on imaging Planetaries (small & very bright), or Star Clusters, you might be OK, but anything else is pretty much a very tough target. (For Planetaries, a Long Focal length scope is almost a "must have", which would certainly reduce the FOV to about what is needed for the Planetary alone, leaving much Light Polluted area out of it)

The only way, IMHO, to succeed at imaging LARGE DSOs, would be through Narrowband Imaging, which would get rid of all that LP.


Like I said, this is simply my opinion, so your mileage may vary...


Clear skies to you,

Beautiful shot, and great setup Greg... enjoy it! 8)