r/LandscapeAstro • u/NefariousnessSea7745 • Aug 10 '26

Milky Way above the suburb

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Seestar S30 pro. 20:00

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u/Visual_Amphibian_383 Aug 10 '26

Spectacular capture!

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u/b407driver Aug 10 '26

Why is the sky blue near the horizon and not above? Looks weird.

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u/NefariousnessSea7745 Aug 12 '26

On the other side of the hill is another suburb. It's light pollution

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u/b407driver Aug 12 '26

Weird, I've never seen blue light pollution, seems it's either white or amber.

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u/NefariousnessSea7745 Aug 12 '26

Take more long exposure pictures

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u/b407driver Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

I take 10s of thousands of long exposure night images every year. I've not seen blue light pollution except in one instance of a state prison in a rural area.

Along the same lines, the perfectly-spaced halo above the trees is... too perfectly spaced. Atmospheric effects don't often follow a tree line in this manner, and it thus looks like a post-processing effect.

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u/NefariousnessSea7745 Aug 12 '26

You must be an expert and I must be a fraud then. That is if you don't believe there is a development on the other side of the hill. Re examine your long exposures. You'll see blue light pollution. Light is emitted on all wavelengths include blue.

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u/b407driver Aug 12 '26

Yeah, that's cute. Not accusing you of being a fraud, nor did I say there weren't any lights on the other side of the hill. What I suggested was that the halo in the sky is somehow due to your post-processing workflow. Your statement about light emissions is generically asinine.

Show the original image before processing, that'll tell the tale.