Patterns in sky brightness depend very strongly on location
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
At many locations around the world, the night sky shines hundreds of times brighter than it did before the introduction of artificial light. Berlin based researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Freie Universität Berlin led a groundbreaking study into variations in the radiance of the night sky. Together with an international team of researchers from Europe, North America, and Asia, they found remarkably large variations in artificial night sky brightness at the different observation sites. Their study, published Thursday in Nature Publishing Group's open access journal Scientific Reports, is the most comprehensive examination of skyglow ever undertaken.