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I finally drove out to the dark sky preserve near Jasper last weekend
I've been into astrophotography for about two years now, but I always shot from my backyard in the suburbs. Light pollution was just something I accepted. Last Saturday I packed up my rig and drove 2 hours to the Jasper dark sky preserve. The difference was INSANE. I could see the Milky Way with my naked eye for the first time. My 30 second exposures looked like what I used to get from stacking 50 images at home. The stars were pin sharp and the background was actually black, not orange. It felt like I had been using the wrong equipment this whole time when really it was just the location. Has anyone else made the switch from suburban shooting to a dark site and felt like they wasted a year of practice?
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