With the above in mind i will now walk you through the best filters from the best and most respected brands.
Best light pollution filter for galaxies.
So here are the filters.
The astronomik cls city light suppression filter is the perfect first filter for astrophotography whether it is through a telescope or with a camera lens.
An easy way to rule out cheap filters that claim to be the best light pollution filters but really are not is that any real filter will come with a chart showing what wavelengths of light are blocked and which are not.
Best light pollution filter for astrophotography.
All filters are available in both 1 25 31 75mm and 2 50 8mm.
Recommendations for light pollution filters.
Most experienced observers agree that a narrowband filter filter one that passes h beta and oiii emission in the blue green while blocking h alpha and light from sodium and mercury vapor lamps is the best all around light pollution or nebula filter for visual observation.
In this post i ll share several examples of astrophotography filters being used on a variety of deep sky objects from the city.
However these nebula filters usually slightly reduce the brightness of most star clusters reflection nebulae and galaxies although in moderate light pollution a narrow band filter may still be of some use on these objects with larger apertures.
This filter has a proven track record of consistent results under city light pollution and one of the first light pollution filters i used with my camera.