Glare and Celestial Visibility
Abstract
A model of the effects of glare on the visibility of astronomical sources as viewed with the human eye is developed whether unaided or through a telescope. This model closely reproduces observations of lunar appulses, Galilean satellites, Martian moons, double stars, and lunar occultations. Glare calculations are then applied to situations of historical and astronomical interest.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- July 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132865
- Bibcode:
- 1991PASP..103..645S
- Keywords:
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- Celestial Bodies;
- Faint Objects;
- Glare;
- Light Scattering;
- Light Sources;
- Visibility;
- Astronomical Models;
- Atmospheric Scattering;
- Double Stars;
- Jupiter Satellites;
- Mars Satellites;
- Open Clusters;
- Astronomy;
- INSTRUMENTS;
- DIFFUSION