2001, Volume 4, Number 2, pp.136-139
Overall performance of astronomical complexes is
mainly influenced by the night sky background radiation. The
scattered light from the Moon makes an important contribution to
this one. For taking into account such background radiation in the
case of the night cloudless sky a model describing the
characteristics of the scattered light the Moon has been offered.
In addition, a rather valuable empirical expression represented
the spatial distribution of the background radiation parameters in
arbitrary units with spectral transparency of the atmosphere
plambda >= 0.7 has been proposed.
Despite its simplicity the
model is more evident, logical and precise than those proposed
earlier.
Key words: night sky, moonlight, brightness, atmospheric
extinction, model
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