Brightness and color of the integrated starlight at celestial, ecliptic and galactic poles

TL;DR

This study measures the brightness and color of integrated starlight at various celestial, ecliptic, and galactic poles using observational data, comparing results with previous studies to enhance understanding of night sky brightness.

Contribution

It provides new measurements of starlight brightness and color at multiple poles, using photoelectric observations and comparing with existing data to improve accuracy.

Findings

Brightness values in S10 and mag/arcsec2 units

Calculated B-V and B-R color indices

Comparison with previous photometric and star count data

Abstract

From photoelectric observations of night sky brightness carried out at Abu-Simbel, Asaad et al. (1979) have obtained values of integrated starlight brightness at different Galactic latitudes. These data have been used in the present work to obtain the brightness and color of the integrated starlight at North and South Celestial, Ecliptic and Galactic Poles. The present values of the brightness are expressed in S10 units and mag/arcsec2. Our results have been compared with that obtained by other investigators using photometric and star counts techniques. The B-V and B-R have been calculated and the results are compared with that obtained by other investigators.