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The Earthshine Telescope Project

Owner-Petersen, Mette LU ; Andersen, Torben LU ; Ardeberg, Arne LU ; Thejll, P. and Gleisner, H. (2008) Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II 7012. p.122-122
Abstract
The Earthshine telescope project is a collaborative effort between Lund Observatory (LO) in Sweden and The Institute of Meteorology in Demark (DMI) with the purpose of constructing one or more robotic telescopes to record the albedo of the Earth over a long time. The objective is to measure long-term development of the global cloud coverage and reflectivity for climate modeling. A 1% change in the Earth's albedo will result in an average temperature change of 0.5 K of the Earth, calling for high precision of the albedo measurements. This poses strict demands on the telescope design, in particular with respect to suppression of straylight. The paper describes our proposed optical and mechanical design of the Earthshine telescope, and... (More)
The Earthshine telescope project is a collaborative effort between Lund Observatory (LO) in Sweden and The Institute of Meteorology in Demark (DMI) with the purpose of constructing one or more robotic telescopes to record the albedo of the Earth over a long time. The objective is to measure long-term development of the global cloud coverage and reflectivity for climate modeling. A 1% change in the Earth's albedo will result in an average temperature change of 0.5 K of the Earth, calling for high precision of the albedo measurements. This poses strict demands on the telescope design, in particular with respect to suppression of straylight. The paper describes our proposed optical and mechanical design of the Earthshine telescope, and presents a preliminary straylight analysis of the design. (Less)
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subject
keywords
Climate, Earthshine, Telescopes
host publication
SPIE Proceedings
volume
7012
pages
122 - 122
publisher
SPIE
conference name
Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II
conference dates
2008-06-23 - 2008-06-28
external identifiers
  • wos:000260430300092
  • scopus:66749158016
ISSN
1996-756X
0277-786X
language
English
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yes
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  author       = {{Owner-Petersen, Mette and Andersen, Torben and Ardeberg, Arne and Thejll, P. and Gleisner, H.}},
  booktitle    = {{SPIE Proceedings}},
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  keywords     = {{Climate; Earthshine; Telescopes}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{122--122}},
  publisher    = {{SPIE}},
  title        = {{The Earthshine Telescope Project}},
  volume       = {{7012}},
  year         = {{2008}},
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