Current Sky Data @ The Briars
MPAS is currently contributing to a worldwide study being run by the Astrophysics department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.
The initiative is a European project called Stars4All, and our site at The Briars has been chosen to be a part of a worldwide network of photometers, measuring the sky brightness evolution with time.
We have been supplied with a photometer, which has been mounted on the roof of the Peter Lowe observatory. The photometer collects data at one minute intervals (24x7), and sends these data to the Spanish university's server, for input into the Stars4All project.
Among the measurements the photometer collects, are sky brightness and cloud cover. These two data sets are graphed below.
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