How bright is moonlight?
- Autor(en)
- Christopher C. M. Kyba, Andrej Mohar, Thomas Posch
- Abstrakt
Recent years have seen increasing recognition and study of the effect of moonlight on plants and animals.
The typical brightness of moonlight is therefore an important parameter for biological laboratory studies, yet incorrect values for the moonlight illuminance are frequently used and cited. We have used the brightness of the “supermoon” of 14 November 2016 to demonstrate that typical lunar illuminance is around 0.05 to 0.1 lux at temperate latitudes during the summer.- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei, Euromix d.o.o.
- Journal
- Astronomy & Geophysics
- Band
- 58
- Seiten
- 1.31-1.32
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 2
- ISSN
- 1366-8781
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atx025
- Publikationsdatum
- 02-2017
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103003 Astronomie, 103004 Astrophysik, 105906 Umweltgeowissenschaften
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a574d8b2-bc2a-441a-96ea-74134b686215