GROUND BASED NETWORK
Globe at Night – SBMN
Globe at Night is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure and submit their night sky brightness observations. Connected to it, a Sky Brightness Monitoring Network was established, listing dozens of cooperating observatories around the world.
TYPE OF INSTRUMENT
Sky-Quality Meter
N° OF STATIONS
6 in CE, 88 worldwide
LOCATION
Worldwide
COORDINATES
See the list
MEASUREMENT POINT
Mostly rural, astronomical observatories
STATUS
Operational
DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes, freely available
TIME RANGE
Since 2014
FREQUENCY OF MEASUREMENT
Various
DATA PUBLISHING FREQUENCY
Monthly
DATA PUBLISHING DELAY
6 months
OWNER
NSF NOIRLab
MORE INFORMATION
CALIBRATED DATA
Yes
MEASUREMENT UNIT
mag/arcsec²
WAVELENGTH RANGE
350 – 700 nm
FIELD-OF-VIEW
± 20 deg
POINTING DIRECTION
Not specified
DATA VISUALISATION
Yes
DATA DOWNLOAD
Yes
DATA FORMAT
CSV
DATA POLICY
Not specified
CONTACTS
Globe at Night
FURTHER REFERENCES
– Globe At Night App
– Star park plans in the National Park Bavarian Forest, with an SQM installed as part of GaN-SBMN (article)
– Data from SQM and all-sky camera installed in Promiod, Italy (Gruppo Astrofili Dalai Lama) as part of GaN-SBMN
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