Atmospheric Optics

Front Matter....Pages iii-vi Some Statistical Determinations of the Instability of Television Images of Stars....Pages 1-4 Images of the Lunar Limb and Heterogeneity Layers in the Troposphere....Pages 5-8 Measuring Limb Vibrations of Solar Images....Pages 9-17 Vibration of Star Images in Telescopes as a Function of Zenith Distance....Pages 18-25 Distribution of Wave-Front Distortions that Cause Star-Image Vibration....Pages 26-30 The Probability of Obtaining Good Star Images with Short-Exposure Photography....Pages 31-37 Electronic Systems for Short-Exposure Photography of Celestial Objects....Pages 38-40 Eliminating Multiple Scattering and Reflection of Light from the Underlying Surface from the Scattering Indicatrix....Pages 41-48 Short Method for Determination of Atmospheric Transmission Coefficients....Pages 49-52 Atmospheric Transmittance and the Interrelationships of Certain Optical Parameters....Pages 53-56 Monitoring the Optical Stability of the Atmosphere for Small and Large Optical Thicknesses....Pages 57-61 Spectral Brightness of the Sky....Pages 62-69 Spectrophotometric Studies of Atmospheric Transmittance and Stability....Pages 70-79 Light Polarization as an Independent Measure of Atmospheric Purity and Transmittance....Pages 80-85 Some Results of Photoelectric Measurements of Atmospheric Polarization in the Town of Shakhty....Pages 86-89 On Studying Twilight Phenomena....Pages 90-97 The Height of the Twilight Ray....Pages 98-106 Evaluating the Dust Component of the Upper Atmosphere by the Twilight Method....Pages 107-115 Brightness and Polarization of Twilight at the Celestial Pole....Pages 116-118 Photoelectric Photometric Study of Twilight in the Infrared Region....Pages 119-126 Dynamics of the Brightness Extremes of the Twilight Sky....Pages 127-128 Determining Atmospheric Transmittance from the Brightness of the Twilight Sky....Pages 129-130 Comparison of some Methods of Eliminating the Effect of the Earth’s Atmosphere from the Observed Brightness of Zodiacal Light....Pages 131-139 Seasonal Variations of the Telluric Lines of Oxygen and Water Vapor in the Solar Spectrum....Pages 140-145 Method for Determining Atmospheric Extinction....Pages 146-150 Determining the Transmission Coefficient and Degree of Optical Stability of the Earth’s Atmosphere....Pages 151-156 Photoelectric Apparatus for Studying Atmospheric Light Scattering....Pages 157-160 Rationality of Characteristic for Optical State of the Atmosphere....Pages 161-165 Method for Studying Twilight Phenomena....Pages 166-172 Astronomical and Actinometric Values of Standard Atmospheric Transmittance....Pages 173-175 Results of Observations of Star Image Vibration at the Uzhgorod Astronomical Station....Pages 176-178