Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Physics and its Applications

Session: Astronomy

1 articles
Proceedings Article

Implications of Twilight Sky Brightness Measurements on Fajr Prayer and Young Crescent Observation

Dhani Herdiwijaya
The morning and evening twilight brightness are important to probe the properties of the upper atmosphere. We conducted a short survey of broad band twilight sky brightness measurements by using a portable photometer with 5 second resolution, in five places with different elevations. The darkest zenith...