Sky brightness at the Kitt Peak National Observatory

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Aug 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989pasp..101..707p&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 101, Aug. 1989, p. 707-712.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sky Brightness, Solar Activity, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Sunspots, Calibrating, Zenith

Scientific paper

Results are reported of a program to determine the brightness of the night sky at Kitt Peak during the recent solar minimum. Well-calibratd photometry in B and V suggests that the average brightness of the night sky during this period was approximately V = 21.9, B = 23.0 in magnitudes per square arcsec, but that variations of a few tenths of a magnitude can occur from night to night, or even during a single night. Since 1987, the sky has already brightened considerably, probably due to the increase in solar activity as the sun moves toward sunspot maximum in 1991.

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