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most citedThe new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 42 cited

Changes in night sky brightness after a countywide LED retrofit

Li-Wei Hung, Sharolyn J Anderson, Ashley Pipkin +1

The US National Park Service (NPS) Night Skies Program measured changes in sky brightness resulting from a countywide lighting retrofit project. The retrofit took place in Chelan C…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 2 cited

HD 165054: an astrometric calibration field for high-contrast imagers in Baade's Window

Meiji M. Nguyen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51

We present a study of the HD 165054 astrometric calibration field that has been periodically observed with the Gemini Planet Imager. HD 165054 is a bright star within Baade's Windo…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 21 cited

Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager

Robert J. De Rosa, Meiji M. Nguyen, Jeffrey Chilcote +49

We present a revision to the astrometric calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an instrument designed to achieve the high contrast at small angular separations necessary t…

astro-ph.IM2018

Upgrading the processing pipeline for the National Park Service Night Skies Program

Li-Wei Hung, Davyd Betchkal, Sharolyn J. Anderson +1

The US National Park Service (NPS) assesses the night sky quality over parks by capturing a series of overlapping images to obtain a mosaic view of the entire night sky. The NPS Ni…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 291 cited

Measuring night sky brightness: methods and challenges

Andreas Hänel, Thomas Posch, Salvador J. Ribas +10

Measuring the brightness of the night sky has become an increasingly important topic in recent years, as artificial lights and their scattering by the Earths atmosphere continue sp…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.7k cited

The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

Fabio Falchi, Pierantonio Cinzano, Dan Duriscoe +6

Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution-artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such…