The Dome C Gattini sky brightness cameras: results from the first year of operation

International audience The Gattini-DomeC project, part of the IRAIT site testing campaign and ongoing since January 2006, consists of two cameras for the measurement of optical sky brightness, large area cloud cover, and auroral detection above the DomeC site, home of the French-Italian Concordia st...

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Main Authors: Moore, A. M., Leslie, T., Ashley, M. C. B., Aristidi, E., Bedding, T., Briguglio, R., Busso, M., Candidi, M., Cutispoto, G., Distefano, E., Everett, J., Kenyon, S., Lawrence, J., Le Roux, B., Luong-Van, D., Phillips, A., Ragazzoni, R., Sabbatini, L., Salinari, P., Stello, D., Storey, J. W. V., Taylor, M., Tosti, G., Travouillon, T.
Other Authors: University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW), Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astrophysique de Nice (LUAN), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), National Research Council of Italy, Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau (FIZEAU), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Wisconsin-Madison, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), School of Physics UNSW Sydney (UNSW), Thirty Metre Telescope
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2007
Subjects:
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Antarctic
Concordia Station
Antarc*
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-02481056
https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:0833004
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Summary:International audience The Gattini-DomeC project, part of the IRAIT site testing campaign and ongoing since January 2006, consists of two cameras for the measurement of optical sky brightness, large area cloud cover, and auroral detection above the DomeC site, home of the French-Italian Concordia station. The cameras are transit in nature and are virtually identical except for the nature of the lenses. The cameras have operated throughout the past two Antarctic winter seasons and here we present the results obtained from the 2006 winter-time dataset of the wide field “All-sky camera".

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