Abstract Zodiacal light is examined as a “foreground noise” limiting the space photometry of faint objects. Emphasis is given to the ways of increasing the signal to noise ratio by an appropriate choice of observational epoch. In the case of the Space Telescope, predictions of average values of this ratio for the extreme faintness case V = 28 are derived from the expected performances announced by NASA and from the recent table of zodiacal brightnesses, as obtained from observations at Tenerife ([1], table 2).
Zodiacal light and space observation of faint objects
Advances in Space Research ; 1 , 8 ; 127-130
01.01.1981
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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