Atmospheric extinction and night-sky brightness at Mauna Kea

Author:

Krisciunas, Kevin, Sinton, W.M., Tholen, D., Tokunaga, A., Golisch, W., Griep, D., Kaminski, C., Impey, C., Christian, C.

Title:

Atmospheric extinction and night-sky brightness at Mauna Kea

Periodical:

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific

Year:

1987

Volume:

99

Pages:

887-894

Subject:

Atmospheric effects site survey Astronomy United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)

Summary:

This document gives a summary of atmospheric extinction values that were obtained at the 4200 meter and the 2800 meter elevations of Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii, from December 1980 to December 1986. The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, (UKIRT), served as an example through which observations could be done to obtain these values. The author obtained extinction values from UKIRT from raw data files that were filed in the VAX/ADAM system and was entirely responsible for the data that was obtained at the 2800 meter level of Mauna Kea.

Label:

Mauna Kea - Astronomy

URL:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987PASP...99..887K

Date:

August 1987

Collection:

Periodicals