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Night sky brightness monitoring network in Wuxi, China [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 2021
Chu Wing So
exaly   +2 more sources

Let there be Skyglow—light pollution from a large outdoor music festival (Lollapalooza Berlin 2016) [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Live music is often linked to elaborate light shows, particularly at large outdoor music festivals. However, artificial light at night is one form of environmental pollution, light pollution, and because outdoor festivals emit a substantial amount of ...
Andreas Jechow
doaj   +2 more sources

Artificial light at night correlates with seabird groundings: mapping city lights near a seabird breeding hotspot [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2022
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a growing conservation concern for seabirds, which can become disoriented and grounded by lights from buildings, bridges and boats. Many fledgling seabirds, especially Procellariiformes such as petrels and shearwaters,
Ariel-Micaiah Heswall   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The increase in the surface brightness of the night sky and its importance in visual astronomical observations

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
The problem of sky pollution with artificial light currently affects practically all branches that are related to the broadly understood environment. This is especially true for astronomical observations.
Marcin Wesołowski
doaj   +1 more source

Light Pollution Monitoring and Sky Colours

open access: yesJournal of Imaging, 2020
The measurement of night sky quality has become an important task in nature conservation. The primary device used for this task can be a calibrated digital camera. In addition, colour information can be derived from sky photography.
Zoltán Kolláth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vertical Variability of Night Sky Brightness in Urbanised Areas

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2022
Excessive amounts of artificial light emitted into the lower atmosphere at night have already become an everyday feature of modern urban landscapes, and gradually also a phenomenon associated with areas located outside large human settlements.
Karpińska Dominika, Kunz Mieczysław
doaj   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF NIGHT SKY BRIGHTNESS ABOVE ZAGREB AND A NEARBY RURAL LOCATION 2014-2017

open access: yesRudarsko-geološko-naftni Zbornik, 2020
The results of monitoring light pollution near the center of Zagreb at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering (RGN) for the period 2012 - 2017 were presented in a recent article (Andreić, 2018).
Krešimir Pavlić, Željko Andreić
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Street Lighting on the Urban and Rural Night-Time Radiance and the Brightness of the Night Sky

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
In April 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the tourism decrease in Cracow (Poland), the Road Authority of the City of Cracow, followed by the authorities of several neighbouring municipalities, decided to turn off street lighting at night.
Tomasz Ściężor
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an absolute light pollution indicator

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The growing concern about the negative impact of artificial light at night on biodiversity and human health increases the need of defining a general indicator that could be used for characterizing light pollution as well as performing both spatial and ...
Philippe Deverchère   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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