The Earthshine Telescope Project
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Department/s
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Pages
122-122
Publication/Series
SPIE Proceedings
Volume
7012
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
SPIE
Topic
- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Keywords
- Climate
- Earthshine
- Telescopes
Conference name
Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II
Conference date
2008-06-23 - 2008-06-28
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1996-756X
- ISSN: 0277-786X