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STARS4ALL LPI - NixNox
- 1. Lucía García
- 5. 130km
- 10. 42º36’41”N 08º22’09”O 670 m DESCRIPCIÓN El observatorio de Forcarei en Pontevedra está ubicado en una finca de 10.000m de superficie. Cuenta con un edificio circular en cuya cúpula de 5m de diámetro descansa un telescopio RCOS de 51cm. Los principales focos de contaminación lumínica son los polígonos industriales de Cachafeiro y A Estrada, situados al SW y NW respectivamente. Hacia el NE hay numerosos generadores eléctricos Al estar protegido por estribaciones montañosas el horizonte de observación es de muy buena calidad. El observatorio cuenta con acceso para automóviles, toma de corriente y WIFI. En el entorno hay varios alojamientos. El concello de Forcarei ha puesto el máximo interés en la elección de las luminarias públicas para que no mermen la excelente calidad de cielo del observatorio. CÓMO LLEGAR El observatorio está situado a 44km de Pontevedra y a 3 de As Casetas, en la carretera que une Forcarei y A Estrada. Para acceder desde Forcarei es necesario tomar la Rúa Progreso.
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- NixNox is a scientific project based on UCM, and sponsored by SEA and STARS4ALL. This work started as an effort to find and characterize places around Spain to enjoy starry skies. To do so professional and amateur astronomers that are collaborating together. We are in touch with around 25 amateur astronomer associations that have already gathered information of more than 100 places. You can check this info in the website nixnox.stars4all.eu.
- The information will be displayed in a card and that includes…
- For the same reason when using online maps its not usual to active the a satellite pictures layer on top. You recognize the information better when schematically presented.
- In this case it is clear there is a big city at the south west position, and indeed this is the sky brightness map of a village called Villaverde del Ducado and the light that you can see comes from Madrid, located at south west.
- So, we have already more than 100 locations over Spain but would really like to find new collaborations for the project to grow outside our borders
- We have started by adding a few places in the States characterizing the few we were visiting during last summer expedition to see the solar total eclipse.
- If you want to participate you will need a photometer. The one in the picture is an SQM installed on a photography tripod with a protractor. The idea is measuring the sky brightness every 30 degrees of Azimuth and 20 in altitude getting a matrix of data to fill the text stencil that you can find in our webpage. You will be asked to fill other data such as the date, the time, the temperature, and the gps coordinates.
- That way, we will transform the data into the map sky to characterize the night sky of the observation point.
- On addition to the text stencil we have created this PowerPoint one with the idea of getting ready for printing a book. It’s just the same information that you can see on the cards but on paper.
- This are the logos of the astronomers associations that are collaborating with us. Would you like to appear here?