OKREŚLENIE CHARAKTERU ZMIAN JASNOŚCI NOCNEGO NIEBA W POLSCE W LATACH 1994–2009 NA PODSTAWIE AMATORSKICH OBSERWACJI KOMET
DETERMINATION OF THE NATURE OF CHANGES OF THE NIGHT SKY BRIGHTNESS IN POLAND IN 1994–2009, BASED ON THE AMATEUR OBSERVATIONS OF COMETS

Author(s): Tomasz Ściężor
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Conference Report
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: light pollution; comets; artificial sky glow
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the new astronomical method, named the cometary method, developed to determine the brightness of the night, cloudless sky, and ultimately to determine the level of light pollution, on the basis of the widely available amateur observations of comets. Development of the comet observations, made in Poland in 1994–2009, has led to a positive verification of the known model map of the night sky brightness. Also, it was possible to find the level of light pollution in the selected observation sites, and also their classification. The nature of changes of the night, cloudless sky brightness in this period in various environments has been also identified and classified.

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