Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T08:17:03.308Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Light Pollution Modeling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. H. Garstang
R. H. Garstang*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics University of Colorado and National Bureau of Standards, and Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The growth of urban development and its accompanying outdoor lighting has made the search for new observatory sites increasingly difficult. A method of predicting the brightness of the night sky produced by a city of known population and distance is useful in making studies of prospective new observatory sites, as well as in studying the likely future deterioration of existing sites. Other sources of light pollution can be investigated using the same model. In most cases, several cities are responsible for the light pollution at a given site, and the predicted night sky brightness is the sum of the contributions of all the cities. In this paper, we shall review the surprisingly little work which has been done on predicting night sky brightnesses from model calculations.

Type
Light Pollution
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 112: Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris , 1991 , pp. 56 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

References

Berry, R. L. 1976, J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada 70, 97–115.Google Scholar
Bertiau, F. C., de Graeve, E. and Treanor, P. J. 1973. Vatican Obs. Pub. 1, No. 4, 159–179.Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1984, The Observatory 104, 196–197.Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1985, J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 95, 133.Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1986, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 98, 364–375.Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1987, in “The Identification, Optimization and Protection of Optical Observatory Sites” (eds. Millis, R. L., Abies, H. D. and Dahn, C. C., Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ) pp. 199–202.Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1988a, The Observatory 108, October issue.Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1988b, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific (to be submitted.)Google Scholar
Garstang, R. H. 1989, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. (submitted).Google Scholar
Geisler, D. 1988, Nat. Opt. Astron. Obs. Newsletter No. 13, 22–23.Google Scholar
Geisler, D., Walker, A., Smith, D. and Weller, B. 1988. Nat. Opt. Astron. Obs. Newsletter No. 14, 24.Google Scholar
Lockwood, G. W. and Thompson, D. T. 1986, Astron. J. 92, 976–985.Google Scholar
Pike, R. 1976, J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada 70, 116–126.Google Scholar
Polavarapu, R. J. 1978, J. Appl. Met. 17, 1368–1374.Google Scholar
Rufener, F. 1986, Astron. Astrophys. 165, 275–286.Google Scholar
Smith, F. G. 1979 Trans. I.A.U. 17A, 220.Google Scholar
Szymber, R. J. and Sellers, D. 1985, J. Clim. Appl. Met. 24, 725–734.Google Scholar
Thomas, R. W. L., Modali, S. B. and Roose, R. G. 1973, Bull. Am. Astron Soc. 5, 391.Google Scholar
Treanor, P. J. 1973, The Observatory 93, 117–120.Google Scholar
Walker, M. F. 1970, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 82, 672–698.Google Scholar
Walker, MM. F. 1973, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 85, 508–519.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walker, M. F. 1977, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 89, 405–409.Google Scholar
Weaver, H. F. 1947, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 59, 232–243.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yamamoto, G., Tanaka, M. and Arao, K. 1968, J. Met. Soc. Japan 46, 287–299.Google Scholar
Yocke, M. A., Hogo, H. and Henderson, D. 1986, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 98, 889–893.CrossRefGoogle Scholar