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| Author | Nievas Rosillo, M. | ||||
| Title | Absolute photometry and Night Sky Brightness with all-sky cameras | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | e-prints Complutense | Abbreviated Journal | e-prints Complutense |
| Volume | Issue | 24626 | Pages | ||
| Keywords | Instrumentation; skyglow; measurement; modeling | ||||
| Abstract | All-sky cameras have proven to be powerful tools to continuously monitoring the sky in a wide range of fields in both Astrophysics and Meteorology. In this work, we have developed a complete software pipeline to analyze the night CCD images obtained with one of such systems. This let us to study typical parameters used in Astrophysics to characterize the night sky quality, such as the Sky Brightness, the Cloud Coverage and the Atmospheric Extinction, how they evolve over the time and their variability. Using our software, we analyzed a large set of data from AstMon-OT all-sky camera at Teide Observatory. Results from this work have been applied in the support to the spanish CTA site proposal at Izaña, Tenerife and are being discussed within the CTA consortium. A comparison with data from other devices that have been used in site characterization such as the IAC80 telescope is also presented. This comparison is used to validate the results of the analysis of all-sky images. Finally, we test our software with AstMon-UCM and DSLR cameras. Some general recommendations for the use of DSLR cameras are provided. | ||||
| Address | Departamento de Astrofísica y Ciencias de la Atmosfera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Master's thesis | |||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Madrid | Editor | ||
| Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
| Series Editor | Series Title | e-prints Complutense | Abbreviated Series Title  |
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| Call Number | IDA @ john @ | Serial | 1437 | ||
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| Author | Hampf, D.; Rowell, G.; Wild, N.; Sudholz, T.; Horns, D.; Tluczykont, M. | ||||
| Title | Measurement of night sky brightness in southern Australia | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Advances in Space Research | Abbreviated Journal | Advances in Space Research |
| Volume | 48 | Issue | 6 | Pages | 1017-1025 |
| Keywords | Observatories and site testing; Airglow and aurorae; Photometric, polarimetric, and spectroscopic instrumentation | ||||
| Abstract | Night sky brightness is a major source of noise both for Cherenkov telescopes as well as for wide-angle Cherenkov detectors. Therefore, it is important to know the level of night sky brightness at potential sites for future experiments. The measurements of night sky brightness presented here were carried out at Fowler’s Gap, a research station in New South Wales, Australia, which is a potential site for the proposed TenTen Cherenkov telescope system and the planned wide-angle Cherenkov detector system HiSCORE. A portable instrument was developed and measurements of the night sky brightness were taken in February and August 2010. Brightness levels were measured for a range of different sky regions and in various spectral bands. The night sky brightness in the relevant wavelength regime for photomultipliers was found to be at the same level as measured in similar campaigns at the established Cherenkov telescope sites of Khomas, Namibia, and at La Palma. The brightness of dark regions in the sky is about 2 × 1012 photons/(s sr m2) between 300 nm and 650 nm, and up to four times brighter in bright regions of the sky towards the galactic plane. The brightness in V band is 21.6 magnitudes per arcsec2 in the dark regions. All brightness levels are averaged over the field of view of the instrument of about 1.3 × 10−3 sr. The spectrum of the night sky brightness was found to be dominated by longer wavelengths, which allows to apply filters to separate the night sky brightness from the blue Cherenkov light. The possible gain in the signal to noise ratio was found to be up to 1.2, assuming an ideal low-pass filter. |
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| Address | Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany | ||||
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| ISSN | 0273-1177 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | IDA @ john @ | Serial | 189 | ||
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| Author | Schnitt, S.; Ruhtz, T.; Fischer, J.; Hölker, F.; Kyba, C.C.M. | ||||
| Title | Temperature stability of the sky quality meter | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) | Abbreviated Journal | Sensors (Basel) |
| Volume | 13 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 12166-12174 |
| Keywords | *Artifacts; Atmosphere/*analysis; Environmental Monitoring/*instrumentation; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Photometry/*instrumentation; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Temperature; *Transducers; Sky Quality Meter; SQM | ||||
| Abstract | The stability of radiance measurements taken by the Sky Quality Meter (SQM)was tested under rapidly changing temperature conditions during exposure to a stable light field in the laboratory. The reported radiance was found to be negatively correlated with temperature, but remained within 7% of the initial reported radiance over a temperature range of -15 degrees C to 35 degrees C, and during temperature changes of -33 degrees C/h and +70 degrees C/h.This is smaller than the manufacturer's quoted unit-to-unit systematic uncertainty of 10%,indicating that the temperature compensation of the SQM is adequate under expected outdoor operating conditions. | ||||
| Address | Institute for Space Sciences, Freie Universitat Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, Berlin 12165, Germany. christopher.kyba@wew.fu-berlin.de | ||||
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| ISSN | 1424-8220 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:24030682; PMCID:PMC3821345 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IDA @ john @ | Serial | 194 | ||
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| Author | den Outer, P.; Lolkema, D.; Haaima, M.; van der Hoff, R.; Spoelstra, H.; Schmidt, W. | ||||
| Title | Intercomparisons of nine sky brightness detectors | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) | Abbreviated Journal | Sensors (Basel) |
| Volume | 11 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 9603-9612 |
| Keywords | Calibration; Darkness; *Extraterrestrial Environment; Humans; Light; Luminescent Measurements; Netherlands; *Optical Phenomena; Optics and Photonics/*instrumentation/*methods; Sky Quality Meter; artificial lighting; intercalibration; intercomparison; light pollution; night sky brightness | ||||
| Abstract | Nine Sky Quality Meters (SQMs) have been intercompared during a night time measurement campaign held in the Netherlands in April 2011. Since then the nine SQMs have been distributed across The Netherlands and form the Dutch network for monitoring night sky brightness. The goal of the intercomparison was to infer mutual calibration factors and obtain insight into the variability of the SQMs under different meteorological situations. An ensemble average is built from the individual measurements and used as a reference to infer the mutual calibration factors. Data required additional synchronization prior to the calibration determination, because the effect of moving clouds combined with small misalignments emerges as time jitter in the measurements. Initial scatter of the individual instruments lies between +/-14%. Individual night time sums range from -16% to +20%. Intercalibration reduces this to 0.5%, and -7% to +9%, respectively. During the campaign the smallest luminance measured was 0.657 +/- 0.003 mcd/m(2) on 12 April, and the largest value was 5.94 +/- 0.03 mcd/m(2) on 2 April. During both occurrences interfering circumstances like snow cover or moonlight were absent. | ||||
| Address | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, A. van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. peter.den.outer@rivm.nl | ||||
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| ISSN | 1424-8220 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:22163715; PMCID:PMC3231263 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IDA @ john @ | Serial | 196 | ||
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| Author | Pun, C.S.J.; So, C.W. | ||||
| Title | Night-sky brightness monitoring in Hong Kong: a city-wide light pollution assessment | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | Abbreviated Journal | Environ Monit Assess |
| Volume | 184 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 2537-2557 |
| Keywords | *Cities; Environmental Monitoring/instrumentation/*methods; *Environmental Pollution; Hong Kong; Humans; *Light | ||||
| Abstract | Results of the first comprehensive light pollution survey in Hong Kong are presented. The night-sky brightness was measured and monitored around the city using a portable light-sensing device called the Sky Quality Meter over a 15-month period beginning in March 2008. A total of 1,957 data sets were taken at 199 distinct locations, including urban and rural sites covering all 18 Administrative Districts of Hong Kong. The survey shows that the environmental light pollution problem in Hong Kong is severe-the urban night skies (sky brightness at 15.0 mag arcsec(- 2)) are on average ~ 100 times brighter than at the darkest rural sites (20.1 mag arcsec(- 2)), indicating that the high lighting densities in the densely populated residential and commercial areas lead to light pollution. In the worst polluted urban location studied, the night-sky at 13.2 mag arcsec(- 2) can be over 500 times brighter than the darkest sites in Hong Kong. The observed night-sky brightness is found to be affected by human factors such as land utilization and population density of the observation sites, together with meteorological and/or environmental factors. Moreover, earlier night skies (at 9:30 p.m. local time) are generally brighter than later time (at 11:30 p.m.), which can be attributed to some public and commercial lightings being turned off later at night. On the other hand, no concrete relationship between the observed sky brightness and air pollutant concentrations could be established with the limited survey sampling. Results from this survey will serve as an important database for the public to assess whether new rules and regulations are necessary to control the use of outdoor lightings in Hong Kong. | ||||
| Address | Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, PR China. jcspun@hku.hk | ||||
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| ISSN | 0167-6369 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:21713499 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IDA @ john @ | Serial | 258 | ||
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