LIGHT POLLUTION

Every Light Has Its Shadow

GROUND BASED INSTRUMENT

PRISMA

Prima Rete Italiana per la Sorveglianza sistematica di Meteore ed Atmosfera (PRISMA) involves the creation of an Italian network of all-sky cameras for observing bright meteors (fireballs and bolides), with the aim of determining the orbits of the objects that cause them and accurately defining the areas where fragments may fall, in order to recover the meteorites.

TYPE OF INSTRUMENT

All-sky cameras

N. OF STATIONS

82

LOCATION

Italy

COORDINATES

Look at the Map

measurement point

Different (city center, village, astronomical observatories)

DATA AVAILABILITY

Soon to be published

TIME RANGE

Since 2018

FREQUENCY OF MEASUREMENT

Each 10 minutes

DATA PUBLISHING FREQUENCY

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MORE INFO

DATA PUBLISHING DALAY

Since 2018

OWNER

INAF – Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

CALIBRATED DATA

Yes

MEASUREMENT UNIT

mag/arcsec^2

WAVELENGHT RANGE

300 – 1000 nm

FIELD-OF-VIEW

All-sky

POINTING DIRECTION

Zenith

DATA VISUALISATION

No

DATA DOWNLOAD

No

DATA FORMAT

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DATA POLICY

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FURTHER REFERENCES

News From the Italian PRISMA Fareball Network (read the article)

Improving Astrometry and Photometry Reduction for PRISMA All-Sky Cameras (read the article)