The Road Runner System

Sociedad Malagueña de Astronomía

MONTSECJune 27th - July 1st

2011

Daniel Rosa Infantes

IV International Symposiumfor Dark Sky Parks

Previous work

IACO 2008 IACO 2009 IACO 2010

First LP map from Málaga province got on 2006

IACO 2009-10

National Project

During 2009, 622 Light Pollutionmeasures were performed on 45 provinces.

During 2010, 91 new measureswhere performed.

“The Road Runner System”What is and which is the purpose?

It is a portable, lightweight, inexpensiveand quick system, which allowsmeasurement of light pollution from anylocation and immediate viewing of thedata captured by the system.

How it works?

SQM

GPS

Laptop

Bluetooth, USB, etc

Magnitudes PerSquare ArcSecond(MPSAS)

USB

Zenith

Magnitudes PerSquare ArcSecond

(MPSAS)

20°

Software

Finished the measurement, the software generates two types of files:

CSV File

KML File for Google Earth

File Name Format: “DDMMYYYY_index”

File Generation

#<Serial_SQM><Registrator>#<year>, <month>, <day>, <UTC_hour>, <Lat>, <Long>, <Speed>,

<Satellites>, <Height>, <Magnitude>, <MALE_Magnitude>, <Temperature>, <Period>, <PrevPoint_Distance>, <Total_Distance>

CSV File

#2011,09,28,135929.000,3641.8398,00442.9640,20.520161,9,156.800003, 08.23m,

-5.424638, 031.2C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.019196

#2011,09,28,135934.000,3641.8262,00442.9744,19.242281,10,157.500000, 08.23m,

-5.424638,031.2C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.038392

#2011,09,28,135939.000,3641.8127,00442.9857,20.038639,10,157.699997, 08.15m,

-5.504470, 031.2C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.057588

#2011,09,28,135954.000,3641.7732,00443.0226,23.520399,10,158.000000, 08.18m,

-5.474532, 031.5C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.076784

#2011,09,28,135959.000,3641.7595,00443.0359,22.853680,10,158.399994, 08.21m,

-5.444595, 031.5C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.095980

#2011,09,28,140004.000,3641.7451,00443.0494,25.409441,10,159.199997, 08.21m,

-5.444595, 031.5C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.115176

#2011,09,28,140009.000,3641.7286,00443.0633,29.206041,10,160.600006, 08.24m,

-5.414659, 031.5C,0000000.000s,0.019196,0.134372

SpreadSheet

The KML File is on KML format, used onGoogle Earth, with information over differentsgeographical points, known as Placemarks.

KML FileVisualization using Google Earth

KML FileVisualization using Google Earth

First prototype pictures

First prototype

Magnetic base

SQM

Ultimate prototype pictures

Magnetic base

SQM

Prototype

New website

Light Pollution MapsAuto-Generation

When enough data from a specific zone will be available, the Light Pollution Map could be gerenated automatically.

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¡Thanks for your attention!