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An All-Sky Photometer

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DURING the period of the International Quiet Sun Year, better opportunities may be found for the examination of airglow in the middle latitudes at a time when little or no auroral contamination is expected. With the view of measuring the intensities of the night airglow radiations emitted from the whole dome of the sky, a simple photoelectric type of photometer has been designed and built, in the Upper Atmosphere Research Section of the National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada.

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KULKARNI, P. An All-Sky Photometer. Nature 196, 363–364 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196363b0

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