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

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III
• Main Authors: Sims, Geoff, Ashley, Michael C B, Cui, Xiangqun, Everett, Jon R., Feng, Long Long, Gong, Xuefei, Hengst, Shane, Hu, Zhongwen, Lawrence, Jon S., Luong-Van, Daniel M., Shang, Zhaohui, Storey, John W V, Wang, Lifan, Yang, Huigen, Yang, Ji, Zhou, Xu, Zhu, Zhenxi
• Other Authors: Stepp, Larry M., Gilmozzi, Roberto, Hall, Helen J.
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SPIE 2010
• Subjects: Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/e45e43ab-28d1-43d0-816b-a70a8f8dea4c; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857795; https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/files/62456108/Publisher%20version%20(open%20access).pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958133593&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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 300nm to 850 nm. Nigel has three pairs of fibers, each with a field-of-view with an angular diameter of 25 degrees, pointing...