Author | Roach, F.E. author |
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Title | The Light of the Night Sky [electronic resource] / by F.E. Roach, Janet L. Gordon |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1973 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2553-9 |
Descript | XI, 126 p. 49 illus. online resource |
From Day to Twilight to Night -- 1.1. The Day Sky - The Blue Planet -- 1.2. The Twilight Sky -- 1.3. The Human Eye and Its Adaptation to Low Light Levels -- 1.4. The Night Sky -- References -- Star Counts and Starlight -- 2.1. Plan of Selected Areas -- 2.2. Modified Star Counting -- 2.3. Distribution of Integrated Starlight over the Sky -- 2.4. Distribution of Starlight over the Sky -- 2.5. Photometric Map of the Sky Based on Star Counts -- 2.6. The Total Light from the Stars -- 2.7. Our Felicitous Location in the Galaxy -- Appendix 2-A. Star Gaging (Herschel) and Star Counts -- Appendix 2-B. Photometric Units in Surface Photometry -- References -- The Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein -- 3.1. Polarization of the Zodiacal Light -- 3.2. The Gegenschein -- References -- The Night Airglow or Nightglow -- 4.1. The Nightglow - Static or Dynamic? -- 4.2. Sources of Nightglow -- 4.3. Photochemical Reactions in the Upper Atmosphere -- 4.4. The Nightglow from Space: the Exosphere and Geocorona -- 4.5. Midlatitude Stable Auroral Arcs (M/SAR) -- 4.6. The Polar Aurora -- 4.7. Effect of Nightglows on LONS Studies -- Appendix 4-A. The Change in Brightness of a Nightglow Layer with Zenith Distance -- References -- Dust-scattered Starlight - The Diffuse Galactic Light -- References -- Dust - Interplanetary and Interstellar -- 6.1. The Zodiacal Dust Cloud -- 6.2. Interstellar Dust -- References -- Cosmic Light and Cosmology -- References -- Epilogue -- References