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10 July 2008 Gattini: a multisite campaign for the measurement of sky brightness in Antarctica
Anna Moore, Graham Allen, Eric Aristidi, Michael Ashley, Tim Bedding, Chas Beichman, Runa Briguglio, Maurizio Busso, Maurizio Candidi, David Ciardi, Xiangqun Cui, Giuseppe Cutispoto, Elisa Distefano, Patrick Espy, Jon Everett, Longlong Feng, Jingyao Hu, Zhaoji Jiang, Suzanne Kenyon, Craig Kulesa, Jon Lawrence, Brice Le Roux, Tim Leslie, Yuangshen Li, Daniel Luong-Van, Andre Phillips, Weijian Qin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Reed Riddle, Lucia Sabbatini, Piero Salinari, Will Saunders, Zhaohui Shang, Dennis Stello, John Storey, Bo Sun, Nicolas Suntzeff, Melinda Taylor, Gino Tosti, Nick Tothill, Tony Travouillon, Gerard Van Belle, Kaspar Von Braun, Lifan Wang, Jun Yan, Huigen Yang, Xiangyan Yuan, Zhenxi Zhu, Xu Zhou
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Abstract
We present the Gattini project: a multisite campaign to measure the optical sky properties above the two high altitude Antarctic astronomical sites of Dome C and Dome A. The Gattini-DomeC project, part of the IRAIT site testing campaign and ongoing since January 2006, consists of two cameras for the measurement of optical sky brightness, large area cloud cover and auroral detection above the DomeC site, home of the French-Italian Concordia station. The cameras are transit in nature and are virtually identical except for the nature of the lenses. The cameras have operated successfully throughout the past two Antarctic winter seasons and here we present the first results obtained from the returned 2006 dataset. The Gattini-DomeA project will place a similar site testing facility at the highest point on the Antarctic plateau, Dome A, with observations commencing in 2008. The project forms a small part of a much larger venture coordinated by the Polar Research Institute of China as part of the International Polar Year whereby an automated site testing facility called PLATO will be traversed into the DomeA site. The status of this exciting and ambitious project with regards to the Gattini-DomeA cameras will be presented.
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Anna Moore, Graham Allen, Eric Aristidi, Michael Ashley, Tim Bedding, Chas Beichman, Runa Briguglio, Maurizio Busso, Maurizio Candidi, David Ciardi, Xiangqun Cui, Giuseppe Cutispoto, Elisa Distefano, Patrick Espy, Jon Everett, Longlong Feng, Jingyao Hu, Zhaoji Jiang, Suzanne Kenyon, Craig Kulesa, Jon Lawrence, Brice Le Roux, Tim Leslie, Yuangshen Li, Daniel Luong-Van, Andre Phillips, Weijian Qin, Roberto Ragazzoni, Reed Riddle, Lucia Sabbatini, Piero Salinari, Will Saunders, Zhaohui Shang, Dennis Stello, John Storey, Bo Sun, Nicolas Suntzeff, Melinda Taylor, Gino Tosti, Nick Tothill, Tony Travouillon, Gerard Van Belle, Kaspar Von Braun, Lifan Wang, Jun Yan, Huigen Yang, Xiangyan Yuan, Zhenxi Zhu, and Xu Zhou "Gattini: a multisite campaign for the measurement of sky brightness in Antarctica", Proc. SPIE 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II, 701226 (10 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789783
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Cameras

Optical filters

Astronomy

Stars

Clouds

Domes

Astronomical imaging

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