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Report of the 2016 STARS4ALL/LoNNe Intercomparison Campaign

Authors

Ribas,  Salvador J
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Aubé,  Martin
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Bará,  Salvador
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Bouroussis,  Constantinos
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Canal-Domingo,  Ramon
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Espey,  Brian
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Hänel,  Andreas
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

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Jechow,  Andreas
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
1.4 Remote Sensing, 1.0 Geodesy, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Kolláth,  Zoltán
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Marti,  Guillem
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Massana,  Pol
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Schmidt,  Wim
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Spoelstra,  Henk
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Wuchterl,  Günther
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

Zamorano,  Jaime
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
External Organizations;

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Kyba,  C.
Miscellaneous, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
1.4 Remote Sensing, 1.0 Geodesy, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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http://www.cost-lonne.eu/
(Supplementary material)

Fulltext (public)

2016_IC_Report_2066888.pdf
(Publisher version), 6MB

Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Ribas, S. J., Aubé, M., Bará, S., Bouroussis, C., Canal-Domingo, R., Espey, B., Hänel, A., Jechow, A., Kolláth, Z., Marti, G., Massana, P., Schmidt, W., Spoelstra, H., Wuchterl, G., Zamorano, J., Kyba, C. (2017): Report of the 2016 STARS4ALL/LoNNe Intercomparison Campaign, Potsdam : Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, 69 p.
https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.1.4.2017.001


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_2066888
Abstract
The 2016 LoNNe (Loss of the Night Network) intercomparison campaign is the fourth of four campaigns planned during EU COST Action ES1204. The first campaign took place in 2013 in Lastovo, Croatia, the second in Madrid, Spain (Bará et al 2015), the third in Torniella and Florence, Italy (Kyba et al 2015a). The 2016 campaign took place at the Parc Astronòmic Montsec (PAM). The campaign was supported by the European Collective Awareness Platform for Social and Sustainable Innovation (CAPPSI) STARS4ALL, in which the activity is planned to become a continuous light pollution initiative (LPI). The financing of this campaign, which is listed as a milestone in the MoU of the COST Action ES1204, was unexpectedly waived by the EU-COST Office due to administrative complications and re-organization of the grant-periods. The campaign continued the strategy of taking measurements at multiple sites, this year with a main fixed site and then excursions to other sites. The goals of the campaigns included: ● Understanding the difference between extinction measurements made by DSLR photometry and classical astronomical (telescope) photometry, and also understanding the relation between extinction and sky brightness at these two sites. ● Examining the difference in radiance measured with the mosaic technique of the US National Parks Service camera compared to all-sky fisheye imagery ● Examining the relationships between all-sky and zenith radiance reported by different instruments ● Quantifying the sky brightness at the sites, including full zenith spectral radiance at selected locations ● Measuring the systematic uncertainty on handheld SQM observations due to unit-to-unit differences This report provides a brief synopsis of the campaign and its preliminary outcomes. Section 2 describes the measurement locations, the detailed activities of the participants, the instruments used, and the environmental conditions. Section 3 describes a meeting with local authorities that took place during the campaign. Section 4 provides some preliminary results, outlines the ongoing analyses, and presents research questions for the next campaign to address. Section 5 provides recommendations for future intercomparison campaigns. The Municipality of Balaguer coordinated with us regarding the time that architectural lamps were turned off, and the village of Àger allowed us to turn all street lighting off at a time of our choice.