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Measuring Night‐Sky Brightness with a Wide‐Field CCD Camera

Measuring Night‐Sky Brightness with a Wide‐Field CCD Camera

We describe a system for rapidly measuring the brightness of the night sky using a mosaic of CCD images obtained with a low‐cost automated system. The portable system produces millions of independent photometric measurements covering the entire sky, enabling the detailed characterization of natural sky conditions and light domes produced …