Smoke in Sky - The Impact on Astrophotographers!

I’ve been asked by many people what the impact of recent wildfires in Canada is on my Astrophotography.

In order to understand the answer to this question, one must have an appreciation for when Astrophotographers are able to capture data!

Can they just go out any night? Nope!

So lets talk about how Astrophotographers determine what nights are good for data capture and then we can better understand how wildfire smoke plumes come along and make things more difficult!