8 Tips for Better Astro Images in Heavy Light Pollution
In this video, I explain some of the techniques I've used to improve my images from Bortle 7 - 9 skies. I present some acquisition tips as well as some pre and post processing ideas that help minimize background gradients and improve overall detail and contrast. My website: https://www.ancientphotonsastro.com/ Instagram:@ancient.photons Blog: https://www.ancientphotonsastro.com/blog 0:00 Intro 1:19 More Integration Time 2:56 Pick Reasonable Targets 4:42 Horizon Discipline 6:10 Shorten Sub-exposures 7:40 Dual-band Filters for OSC 9:15 Go Mono! 11:41 Use Local Normalization 14:37 Background Extraction 16:35 Final Thoughts
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