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Citizen Science Provides Valuable Data for Monitoring Global Night Sky Luminance

The skyglow produced by artificial lights at night is one of the most dramatic anthropogenic modifications of Earth's biosphere. The GLOBE at Night citizen science project allows individual observers to quantify skyglow using star maps showing different levels of light pollution. We show that a...

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Autores principales: Kyba, Christopher C. M., Wagner, Janna M., Kuechly, Helga U., Walker, Constance E., Elvidge, Christopher D., Falchi, Fabio, Ruhtz, Thomas, Fischer, Jürgen, Hölker, Franz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23677222
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01835