Night sky quality monitoring in existing and planned dark sky parks by digital cameras

Zoltán Kolláth, Anita Dömény
(Submitted on 26 May 2017)

A crucial part of the qualification of international dark sky places (IDSPs) is the objective measurement of night time sky luminance or radiance. Modern digital cameras provide an alternative way to perform all sky imaging either by a fisheye lens or by a mosaic image taken by a wide angle lens. Here we present a method for processing raw camera images to obtain calibrated measurements of sky quality. The comparison of the night sky quality of different European locations is also presented to demonstrate the use of our technique.

Comments:    in press: International Journal of Sustainable Lighting
Subjects:    Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as:    arXiv:1705.09594 [astro-ph.IM]
     (or arXiv:1705.09594v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Zoltan Kollath
[v1] Fri, 26 May 2017 14:26:10 GMT (3132kb)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09594