Urban light pollution: The effect of atmospheric aerosols on astronomical observations at night

Applied Optics

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 1991, Pages 3047-3058

  Joseph, Joachim H ^b   Kaufman, Yoram J ^a   Mekler, Yuri ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Astronomy; Light pollution; Radiative transfer signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975662138     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.30.003047     Document Type: Article

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