Published October 29, 2018
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Estimating the relative contribution of streetlights, vehicles, and residential lighting to the urban night sky brightness
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- 1. Universidadde de Santiago de Compostela
- 2. Universidadde da Coruña
- 3. Museos Científicos Coruñeses
- 4. Politécnico do Porto
- 5. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
- 6. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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A practical method for determining the time signatures of different contributing sources is also described, based on wide-
field time-lapse photometry of the urban nightscape. Our preliminary results suggest that, besides the dominant streetlight contribution, artificial light leaking out of the windows of residential buildings may account for a significant share of the time-varying part of the zenithal night sky brightness at the measurement locations, whilst the contribution of the vehicle lights seems to be significantly smaller.
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