In trying to learn even more about the universe, I've picked up several books but am stuck on the theory of recombination and how it relates to transparency.
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While this paper covered several aspects of “astronomical seeing,' the transparency scale that is often asked for in A.L.P.O. or B.A.A. observational forms is seldom mentioned in detail.
transparency: a measure of the atmosphere's clarity, how dark the sky is at night and how blue it is during the day.
twilight: the time after sunset or before sunrise when the sky is not fully dark.
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For an all-sky transparency evaluation, the reference objects should be in different parts of the sky, such as overhead, and in the eastern, southern, and western sky.
haze (NASA Thesaurus) Fine particles of dust, salt, or water dispersed through a part of the atmosphere, diminishing transparency of the air, causing colors to assume a characteristic subdued opalescent appearance, ...
with coordinate grid transparency overlay.
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Cut the transparency about a centimeter outside the Earth's orbit. You should now have a circular piece of transparency, which you will later spin to represent the Earth's yearly motion.
Set the transparency to 100 percent and the operation to Negative. Under negative, when two pixels with the same color are aligned, the result is black.
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Despite the adverse observing circumstances it's worth keeping an eye out for your local weather forecast and then judging the degree of transparency close to your local south-eastern horizon nearer to eclipse time.
The decreased transparency of the stellar material blocks the energy flux and heats the gas, and the increased pressure pushes the envelope out, thus increasing the star's size and luminosity.
The latter possibility is also suggested by the curious fact that the visibility of the light does not seem to be proportional to the transparency of the atmosphere.
Apart from its inertness, helium has high thermal conductivity, neutron transparency, and does not form radioactive isotopes under reactor conditions, so it is used as a coolant in some nuclear reactors, such as pebble-bed reactors.
Optical depth is a measure of the transparency of a ring system. When a ring is "optically thick" (i.e., the optical depth is large), the ring is nearly opaque and very little light passes through. When a ring is "optically thin" (i.e.
Atmospheric windows (transparency/opacity)
Wavelength (lambda), frequency (f), c = f × lambda
Photoelectric effect
Photons (particle-like)
Photons carry energy : E = hf = hc/ lambda
h=Planck's constant = 6.6× 10-34 Joules sec.
I use their visibility as a test of sky transparency. Secondly, supernovae. They scare the heck out of me. Every time I see them, I hope all the sentients from 50ly around caught the last Airbus out of the system.
The lack of complete transparency of a gas.
open cluster - (n.)
A galactic cluster, an asymmetric type of star cluster.
From the table below, you can see that only a few of the infrared "windows" have both high sky transparency and low sky emission. These infrared windows are mainly at infrared wavelengths below 4 microns.
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The degree to which light is prevented from passing through an object or a substance. Opacity is the opposite of transparency. As an object's opacity increases, the amount of light passing through it decreases.
6.3 Electromagnetics
Radio Frequencies, The Whole Spectrum, Atmospheric Transparency, Radio Frequency Interference, Spectroscopy.
6.4 Electromagnetics
The Doppler Effect, Differenced Doppler.
The effects of extinction depend on transparency, elevation of the observer, and the zenith angle, the angle from the zenith to one's line of sight. Therefore, looking vertically, the zenith angle is 00, and is 900 at the horizon.
The divide between transparency and translucency is not well defined. Thus some people call a filter transparent (as it does not distort radiation): others would call it translucent (as it absorbs some of the radiation).
Opacity is the opposite of transparency. At the bottom of Figure 3.11, the atmospheric opacity is plotted along the wavelength and frequency scales. The extent of shading is proportional to the opacity.
Besides copying text and images on sheets of paper, the xerographic copier can also make copies on transparent sheets of acetate or some other plastic material, for use in transparency projectors.
Volcanic explosions, such as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, can inject great quantities of particulates into the stratosphere, which remain suspended for years, decreasing atmospheric transparency and resulting in measurable ...
opacity A quantity that measures a material's ability to block electromagnetic radiation. Opacity is the opposite to transparency.
Apparent Magnitude The brightness of a body, as it appears to the observer, measured on a standard magnitude scale. It is a function of the luminosity and distance of the object, and the transparency of the medium through which it is observed.
Only when these inconspicuous round rocks are split in half do we get a chance to appreciate the inside of the rock cavity that is lined with crystals. In the case of Hubble's 35 light-year diameter "celestial geode," the transparency of its ...
weeks, night skies were aglow such that one could read in their light, sometimes called "bright nights." In the United States, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory observed a decrease in atmospheric transparency ...
Moreover, because of changes in gaseous transparency, the "size" of the star depends on the color of observation.
turbidity (NASA SP-7, 1965) In meteorology, any condition of the atmosphere which reduces its transparency to radiation, especially to visible radiation.
 See also: Light, Earth, Time, Degree, Second
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