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Organized Observations of Night-Sky Brightness in Japan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Observations of the night-sky brightness were organized at 106 places in Japan by a promotion of the Environmental Agency with the help of many local governments. Two kinds of measurements were carried out: 1) Number of stars were counted in a region of triangle formed by Alpha Lyr, Epsilon Lyr, and Zeta Lyr by at least 10 contributors at each point. 2) Photographs of a star field at the zenith at each point were taken with the same type of camera and film. These results gave us a good idea on distribution of night-sky brightness in Japan.
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