(meteorobs) Setting Sun Magnitude?

javor.kac at guest.arnes.si javor.kac at guest.arnes.si
Mon Mar 14 13:02:52 EST 2005


 Hi All,

> Geert>>This formula would suggest a correction of 9 magnitudes at
> 1 degree, but what's it based on? (Looks empirical...)<<
>
> So we are probably thinking in the range of -18? The photograph I
> took of the sun, just before touching the water, would be about 1
> degree. I guess with just one more degree lower, I should have seen
> massive amounts of steam? :O)

There is a paper on atmospheric extinction at
<http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/ICQExtinct.html>.

Based on that paper I have made an online extinction calculator at
<http://www.orion-drustvo.si/MBKTeam/comets/extinction.htm>.

Clear skies!
Javor
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