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ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Supplement Series, Volume 127, January I 1997

Special Issue

The 1997 reference of diffuse night sky brightness
Ch. Leinert, S. Bowyer, L.K. Haikala, M.S. Hanner, M.G. Hauser, A.-Ch. Levasseur-Regourd, I. Mann, K. Mattila, W.T. Reach, W. Schlosser, H.J. Staude, G.N. Toller, J.L. Weiland, J.L. Weinberg, A.N. Witt

1. Overview
2. Brightness units
3. Coordinate transformations

3.1. Ecliptic and equatorial coordinates
3.2. Galactic and equatorial coordinates
3.3. Galactic and ecliptic coordinates
3.4. Altazimuth and equatorial coordinates
3.5. Alternate ecliptic coordinates

4. Total sky brightness

4.1. Ultraviolet
4.2. Visual
4.3. Near-infrared from the ground
4.4. Infrared

5. Tropospheric scattering

5.1. A uniform unpolarized source of unit brightness
5.2. The integral starlight
5.3. The Zodiacal light

6. Airglow

6.1. Airglow spectrum, UV to IR
6.2. Dependence on zenith distance
6.3. Variations
6.4. Geocorona
6.5. Interplanetary emissions
6.6. Shuttle glow

7. Light pollution

7.1. Observations of sky pollution
7.2. Modelling of sky pollution
7.3. Spectrum of the sky pollution light

8. Zodiacal light

8.1. Overview and general remarks
8.2. Heliocentric dependence
8.3. Zodiacal light at 1 AU in the visual
8.4. Wavelength dependence and colour
8.5. Zodiacal light in the infrared
8.6. Zodiacal light in the ultraviolet
8.7. Seasonal variations
8.8. Structures in the zodiacal light
8.9. The zodiacal light seen from other places

9. Coronal brightness and polarisation

9.1. Overview
9.2. K-corona separation
9.3. Atmospheric and instrumental stray light
9.4. Visual brightness
9.5. Polarization and colour
9.6. Infrared

10. Integrated starlight

10.1 Model predictions based on star counts
10.2. Ultraviolet
10.3. Ground-based UBVR photometry
10.4. Pioneer 10/11 spaceborne visual photometry
10.5. Near-and mid-infrared

11. Diffuse galactic light

11.1. Overview
11.2. Visual
11.3. Near-infrared
11.4. Thermal infrared
11.5. Ultraviolet

12. Extragalactic background light

12.1. Ultraviolet
12.2. Visual
12.3. Infrared
12.4. Overview on EBL observations

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