Information on Service 'Light Pollution Raw Data'

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We give continuous night and day light measurements at all natural outdoor light levels by a network of low-cost lightmeters. Developed to start simple, global continuous high cadence monitoring of night sky brightness and artificial night sky brightening (light pollution) in 2009. The lightmeter network is a project of the Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany and the Kuffner-Sternwarte society at the Kuffner-Observatory, Vienna, Austria. It started as part of the Dark Skies Awareness cornerstone of the International Year of Astronomy.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this service's resource, see Information on resource 'Lightmeter Data'

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Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
epoch JD (UTC) JD of measurement, UTC d time.epoch
stationId Station ID Identifier of the measuring station, starting with an ISO CC N/A meta.id;meta.main

Default Output Fields

The following fields are contained in the output by default. More fields may be available for selection; these would be given below in the VOTable output fields.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
meanepoch Mean JD (UTC) Mean epoch of measurements within this file d time.epoch
stationid Station ID Identifier of the measuring station, starting with an ISO CC N/A meta.id;meta.main

VOTable Output Fields

The following fields are available in VOTable output. The verbosity level is a number intended to represent the relative importance of the field on a scale of 1 to 30. The services take a VERB argument. A field is included in the output if their verbosity level is less or equal VERB*10.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD Verb. Level
stationid Station ID Identifier of the measuring station, starting with an ISO CC N/A meta.id;meta.main 1
meanepoch Mean JD (UTC) Mean epoch of measurements within this file d time.epoch 1
source Source Source file key N/A meta.id;meta.file 24

This database of lightmeter measurements is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/.

Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/

Citation Info

VOResource XML (that's something exclusively for VO nerds)