An analysis of light pollution at the Thirty Meter Telescope candidate sites

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Riddle, Reed L ^a   Walker, David ^b   Schöck, Matthias ^a   Els, Sebastian G ^b   Skidmore, Warren ^a   Travouillon, Tony ^a   Bustos, Edison ^b   Seguel, Juan ^b   Vasquez, Joselino ^b   Blum, Robert D ^c   Gillett, Paul ^a   Gregory, Brooke ^b  

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

All sky cameras; Instruments; Light pollution; Site testing

Indexed keywords

ALL SKY CAMERAS; ALL-SKY; CAMERA IMAGES; LARGE CITIES; LIGHT POLLUTION; REMOTE AREAS; SITE TESTING; SMALL TOWNS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CAMERAS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TESTING;

POLLUTION;

EID: 66749103827     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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