论文标题
夜空亮度测量，质量评估和监视
Night Sky Brightness Measurement, Quality Assessment and Monitoring
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论文摘要
基于地面的光学天文学必然涉及感知天文学物体的光，以及从地球大气到宇宙光的许多自然来源的贡献。此外，天文学家长期以来一直遭到人造光污染的争议，这进一步增加了“背景”，从而看到了天文学对象。因此，了解夜空的亮度是天文学的基础。对该主题的最后一次综合评论是将近一个半个世纪之前，从那以后，我们对自然和人造的夜空都了解了很多。这篇评论考虑了影响夜空的总光学亮度。测量亮度的手段；以及如何长期评估和监视夜空质量。
Ground-based optical astronomy necessarily involves sensing the light of astronomical objects along with the contributions of many natural sources ranging from the Earth's atmosphere to cosmological light. In addition, astronomers have long contended with artificial light pollution that further adds to the 'background' against which astronomical objects are seen. Understanding the brightness of the night sky is therefore fundamental to astronomy. The last comprehensive review of this subject was nearly a half-century ago, and we have learned much about both the natural and artificial night sky since. This Review considers which influences determine the total optical brightness of the night sky; the means by which that brightness is measured; and how night sky quality is assessed and monitored in the long term.
