We can't all live in the desert. This is a place to share our pitfalls, detriments, workarounds, solutions and remedies to astrophotography issues unique to our urban environment.
One of the real disadvantages of an urban setting is vignetting caused by stray light and light pollution and/or smog in the sky, causing "skyglow" and saturating our images prematurely..
Recently I downloaded the free trial of Gradient Exterminator and applied it to many of my Astrophotos. It's very easy to use and made instant improvements to almost every image I used it on. I've since purchased this photoshop add-on.
Steve Coates
Feb 13, 2011