Last week, the team of INAF-OATo, lead partner of the project, installed the first Italian SQM of the Photometer Network developed by the project. Located on the roof of the Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, this SQM will be able to provide accurate measurements of the night sky brightness of the area. These measurements, as well as those taken by the SQMs installed by other project partners in Austria, Germany and Hungary, will be gathered in the DARKERSKY4CE Repository, an open-source digital archive for the collection and harmonisation of night-sky brightness and light pollution data in Central Europe.
From now on, this SQM will therefore join, on the roof of INAF-OATo, the very first all-sky camera of the PRISMA Network (First Italian Network for Surveillance of Meteor and Atmosphere), which, in addition to observing the night sky in search of bright meteors to calculate the fall area of potential meteorite fragments, has also been collecting data on light pollution since 2016.
Want to find out more? Check out the DARKERSKY4CE Photometer Network data at the this link.
