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The Interaction of Day Temperatures and Night Sky Visibility
Organization(s):Ottawa Hills Jr/Sr High School
Country:United States of America
Student(s):Daisy Mullan
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
Educator(s):Gloria Kreischer Gajewicz
Contributors:Rafaela Marson
Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report, Mission Earth Report
Protocols:Air Temperature
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Language(s):English
Date Submitted:03/05/2025
This project aims to fill a gap in understanding of sky visibility during the night. More specifically, how do temperatures during the day correlate to night sky visibility? I will be using traditional methods like recording temperature and using a data sheet to analyse clouds during the day, but I will also be using more unconventional methods, like going into archives of a website to find the specific visibility data of a specific day after it has passed. the results proved that the peak of visibility was when the temperature was around 50 degrees and the lowest visibility was when the temperature was high around 70. This means that the visibility is related to temperature, but the trend is not perfectly linear.