Optical sky brightness at Dome A � Antarctica � from the Nigel experiment

• Main Authors: Geoff Sims A, Michael C. B. Ashley A, Xiangqun Cui B, Jon R. Everett A, Longlong Feng C�d, Xuefei Gong B�d, Shane Hengst A, Zhongwen Hu B�d, Jon S. Lawrence E�f, Daniel M. Luong-van A, Zhaohui Shang D�g, John W. V. Storey A, Lifan Wang C�h�d, Huigen Yang D�i, Jiyang C, Zhenxi Zhu C�d
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Dome A; PLATO observatory; site testing; aurora; night sky brightness; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.185.3959; http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/%7Emcba/pubs/sim10a.pdf

Nigel is a fiber-fed UV/visible grating spectrograph with a thermoelectrically-cooled 256�1024 pixel CCD camera, designed to measure the twilight and night sky brightness from 300 nm to 850 nm. Nigel has three pairs of fibers, each with a field-of-view with an angular diameter of 25 degrees, pointin...