Re: [Utah-astronomy] Will the cost of gas change your dark site visits or your attendance at outreach events?
Is this a good reason to get into CCD imaging? Get a light pollution filter and stay at home? Or will a dark site always be better as far as imaging is concerned? Debbie On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Rob Ratkowski Photography < ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
This fall when I went south, on Rarotonga, Cook Is. gas was (in October) $13/gal. Gas here on Maui is $4.90/gal so enjoy what you have in Utah I'll be heading to French Polynesia this summer and I suspect gas will be fairly costly there too c'est la vive
Aloha Rob
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Dark sites are always better. A lot of light pollution is in the same wavelengths as deep space objects. You can do some amazing Ha imaging from light polluted skies as infrared light is a much longer wavelength - it passes right through the light pollution. A lot of astrophotographers do Ha imaging when the moon is high and bright. -David On 4/23/2011 9:25 AM, Debbie wrote:
Is this a good reason to get into CCD imaging? Get a light pollution filter and stay at home? Or will a dark site always be better as far as imaging is concerned?
Debbie
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Rob Ratkowski Photography< ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
This fall when I went south, on Rarotonga, Cook Is. gas was (in October) $13/gal. Gas here on Maui is $4.90/gal so enjoy what you have in Utah I'll be heading to French Polynesia this summer and I suspect gas will be fairly costly there too c'est la vive
Aloha Rob
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