Optical sky brightness spectra from the Nigel experiment at Dome A, Antarctica

• Other Authors: ASHLEY, MICHAEL C.B. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), ASHLEY, MICHAEL C.B. (processor), SIMS, GEOFF (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SIMS, GEOFF (processor), BURTON, MICHAEL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BURTON, MICHAEL (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; AIRGLOW; EARTH SCIENCE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; AURORAE; SUN-EARTH INTERACTIONS; IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS; Night Sky Brightness; Sky Brightness; PLATO; Fibre-fred spectrometer; Spectrometers; OBSERVATORIES; ASTROPOLES > Astronomy from the Polar Plateaus; PANDA > The Prydz Bay; Amery Ice Shelf and Dome A Observatories; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Austral; Prydz Bay; Pacific; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; The ''Y''; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/optical-sky-brightness-a-antarctica/698936; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4011_DomeA_Sky_Brightness; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The "Nigel" spectrometer was operated at Dome A, Antarctica, over the 2009 Austral winter. As part of the PLATO (PLATeau Observatory) astronomical instrument suite, Nigel was designed as a site-testing instrument, to provide quantitative measurements of the day time, twilight and night tim...