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The Bortle dark-sky scale (usually referred to as simply the Bortle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location. It quantifies the astronomical observability of celestial objects and the interference caused by light pollution .
John E. Bortle is an American amateur astronomer. He is best known for creating the Bortle scale to quantify the darkness of the night sky. Bortle has made a special study of comets. He has recorded thousands of observations relating to more than 300 comets. From 1977 until 1994 he authored the monthly '"Comet Digest" in Sky and Telescope magazine.
[10] [11] Amateur astronomers have used the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale to approximately quantify skyglow ever since it was published in Sky & Telescope magazine in February 2001. [12] The scale rates the darkness of the night sky inhibited by skyglow with nine classes and provides a detailed description of each position on the scale.
The darkness of the night sky is classified on the Bortle scale from 1 ("excellent", i.e., extremely dark) to 9 ("inner-city sky", i.e., partially dark). Hanle is categorised as an excellent dark astronomical site with Bortle colour key "Black". [9] The dark sky is important for the conservation of nocturnal animals and ecology.
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HD 147513 (62 G. Scorpii) is a star in the southern constellation of Scorpius.It was first catalogued by Italian astronomer Piazzi in his star catalogue as "XVI 55". [12] With an apparent magnitude of 5.38, [2] according to the Bortle scale it is visible to the naked eye from suburban skies.
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