Hoya 58mm Starscape Light Pollution Cut Filter

Attached is a single exposure taken in the UK under a Sky with Class 5 Bortle light pollution and very minimal editing. Much better results than I had at this location without the filter, not to mention is was also the shortest night of the year back in June so my window of opportunity to get this image was very small.

I generally highly rate Hoya filters. I tried this filter where I live in suburbia, with the Pentax K-3iii, which has an astro tracking function (to get maximum light to the sensor I use f2.8). However the filter did not give sufficient contrast in a clear sky for the astro function to work correctly with the light pollution. I did manage to take images away from light pollution and when the images were zoomed in above 50%, some artefacts were shown around stars, compared to images without the filter. On this basis, I returned the filter. Other users may find full view images totally acceptable - down to personal preferences.

Although ots a good quality filter, if your planning to use one of these on Astro images, your best avoiding. Ot doesnt do well on stacked images, leaving lines through the final resulting image.This filter is best used on single frame night shots including a foreground landscape. Its great on minimising the light from old vapour street lamps, but wont make a difference to LED lamp lights.

Works to some extent but doesn’t really help with yellow street lights

go to the darkest place you can reach AND use this for brilliant pics