Overnight measurements of the sky brightness as a method for assessing the cloudiness

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https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v11i3.913

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Determining the state of cloudiness at night is always a problem, especially at low levels of light pollution. This paper presents an innovative method of assessing the cloudiness of the night sky solely on the basis of all-night measurements of the brightness of the sky using generally available SQM meters. Using the numerical method of calculating the discrete derivative of the overnight brightness of the night sky from time it is possible not only to distinguish a cloudless sky from a cloudy one, but even to distinguish the high level clouds from medium and low level ones.

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2019-09-30

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T. Ściężor, “Overnight measurements of the sky brightness as a method for assessing the cloudiness”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 72–74, Sep. 2019.

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2019)

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