Above you can view 2 pictures of the same deep sky object one taken in a light polluted backyard and one taken in a rural backyard. Both images were taken with the same equipment and processed in the same way, the only difference is the location, date and time.

ISO 3200
f/5.6
41 lights @ 30 sec each
28 dark frames
18 flat frames
25 biases frames

iexos-100 mount
D5100 Stock
135mm Nikor Lens

Stacking, Postprocessing done is Siril
Denoise in Topaz Photo A

You can read more about light pollution at darksky.org

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