The dark night sky paradox

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Dark Night ◽  
Night Sky

The Dark Night Sky: A Personal Adventure in Cosmology

Physics Today ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Author(s):  
D. Clayton ◽  
Edward R. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Dark Night ◽  
Night Sky

The Dark Night-Sky Riddle: A "Paradox" That Resisted Solution

Science ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 226 (4677) ◽  
pp. 941-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Dark Night ◽  
Night Sky

The dark night sky

2002 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
J M Overduin ◽  
P S Wesson
Keyword(s):  
Dark Night ◽  
Night Sky

The dark night sky

2002 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Alberto Lerda
Keyword(s):  
Dark Night ◽  
Night Sky

scholarly journals II.—Bright Clouds on a Dark Night Sky

1883 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Piazzi Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Small Extent ◽  
Large Telescope ◽  
Dark Night ◽  
Moonless Night ◽  
Night Sky

On a moonless night, whenever clouds of an ordinary elevation in the atmosphere appear upon, or pass across, the star-spangled sky behind them, they exhibit themselves, as a rule, dark, sometimes even black, in comparison therewith. And no wonder, when every part of the open sky from visible star to visible star therein must be lit up to some, though doubtless a very small, extent by the faintest general and cumulative radiance of those myriads and myriads of lesser stars, which only a large telescope can show to be individually existent as actual stellar points of light, but in their aggregate more nearly eternal, and still more constant from age to age, than our gigantic Sun itself.

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