Determining how the lighting of the City University affects the quality of the OACS night sky

Abstract

Light pollution is one of the factors responsible for the attenuation of the brightness of celestial bodies, this is mainly due to the inadequate way we light our cities. The goal we set in this work was to determine to what extent the public lighting installed in the campus and surrounding astronomical observation affects the Central Astronomical Observatory of Suyapa, and propose corrective action. The data were obtained by using LUXOMETRO which stood parallel to the street and a height of 1.5 meters, and using GPS techniques georeferenced studio areas. Results found in major ways UNAH college campus - Tegucigalpa are between 3 lux and 95.5 lux when compared to international standards confirm the existence of areas where the lighting is very poor or are over lit. Our work consisted in the calculation of the average illuminance (Em), which was determined by applying the European standard method of the “Nine Points”.

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol.5(1) 2012, 6-17