Sky quality meter
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sky-quality-meter-190-2070157
title:
Sky quality meter
text:
A sky quality meter (SQM) is an instrument used to measure the luminance of the night sky. It is used, typically by amateur astronomers, to quantify the skyglow aspect of light pollution and uses units of "magnitudes per square arcsecond" favored by astronomers. SQM measurements can be submitted to a database on the manufacturer's website and to the citizen science project GLOBE at Night. There are several models of SQM made, offering different fields of view, and various automatic measurement a
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description:
Instrument used to measure the luminance of the night sky
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_quality_meter
date created:
2012-03-12T12:28:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:31:56Z
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