Robotic Earthshine Telescope

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agusm.a43d..15g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #A43D-15

Physics

3305 Climate Change And Variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513)

Scientific paper

First results are reported from a robotic earthshine telescope. The refracting telescope alternatively records the bright (moonshine) and dark (earthshine) parts of the lunar face. It is the ratio of the earthshine to moonshine from which the Earth's reflectance is determined. Telescope design trade-offs are discussed. The novel parts of the telescope include an automated rotating/translating stage to block the moonshine when the earthshine is being measuring; the telescope also functions like a coronagraph to minimize stray light. Calibration of the robotic telescope against manually operated telescopes is discussed. This is an essential step before deploying a global network of earthshine robots.

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