Measuring Light Pollution with a Calibrated High Dynamic Range All-Sky Image Acquisition System Georg Zotti Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms Vienna University of Technology
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Measuring Light Pollution with a Calibrated High Dynamic Range
All-Sky Image Acquisition System
Georg Zotti
Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms
Vienna University of Technology
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Outline
Sky Luminance and Stellar VisibilityHigh Dynamic Range PhotographyEvaluation of HDR imagesResults
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Sky Luminance and Stellar Visibility
Instrument Vision
Human Vision
[after Weaver 1947, Garstang 1986, Cinzano 1997]
Full Moon Sunset
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High Dynamic Range Photography
Combination of several exposuresCalibration with Luminance Meter
Luminance MapPhotographic Measurement System
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Our SystemCamera: Digital SLR
All-Sky Fisheye only with Full-Size Chip DSLRs RAW image format!
Free Software: Dcraw for RAW image processinghttp://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/PFS Tools for HDR processing http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/pfstools/
ExtensibleCalibration:
PFS Tools, from EXIF data (approximative)Minolta LS-110 for daylight rangeSky Quality Meter for night measurements
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Evaluation of Zenith Luminance
Series of HDR photos Averaged zenith area
Tonemapped HDR images
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Evaluation of Zenith Luminance
cd/m²Sun alt.
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Evaluation of Zenith Luminance
Illumination Reduction
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Results: Surburb SkyFull illumination Reduced illumination
Difference on photographs hard to detect
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Results: Surburb SkyFull illumination Reduced illumination
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Results: City Border (average)Full illumination Reduced illumination
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Results: City Border (good night)Full illumination Reduced illumination
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Results: City Border / 20km from Viennamag5 Good site near Vienna, mag6
Vienna
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Results: 20km from Vienna / DesertGood site near Vienna, mag6 Desert Sky (Libya) mag6.5
Camp
Vienna
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Conclusions
All-Sky Luminance Measurement SystemCalibrated HDR Imaging SystemSimple extensions to PFS Tools
False-Colour PlotsFor technical astronomers: mag/arcsec²For visual star watching: limiting visual magnitudes
Street light reduction clearly visible
Thank you for Your AttentionGeorg Zotti
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