The time cost of light pollution
How many hours it takes under your sky to match one hour under a Bortle 1 sky.
The dollar cost of chasing dark skies
What traveling to a dark site really costs per hour of imaging, compared to remote hosting.
Traveling to dark skies
$0/imaging hr
$0/yr · ~0 hrs/yr
Remote at Bortle 1
$0/imaging hr
$0/yr · ~1,500 hrs/yr
77 years
of your clear nights to match one year of remote imaging
Remote hosting works out to about
33× cheaper
per hour of imaging — and you never leave the house
Log scale. Each magnitude of skyglow means ~2.5× more background photons, so matching signal-to-noise takes ~2.5× longer. Assumes broadband imaging, ~5 imaging hours per clear night at home, and ~1,500 hours per year on a remote rig.
Assumes $0.70/mile and ~6 imaging hours per clear trip night. Remote based on ~220 clear nights per year at ~7 hours each. Gear wear, meals, and vacation days not included.
실제 사례 비교
텍사스주 애빌린의 심각한 빛 공해 속에서 촬영한 두 장의 사진과 같은 날 저녁 천문대에서 촬영한 사진입니다. 차이가 극명합니다!
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FSQ106과 ASI6200mm로 촬영한 65시간의 Ha-Oiii-RGB 노출
FSQ106 및 ASI6200mm로 촬영한 111시간의 Ha-RGB 노출
6.5시간 RGB 노출, VSD100 f/3 및 ASI6200mm로 촬영
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