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18 January 2022 at 11:13 am
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Dr Paul Leyland
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I support this request and would add another, closely related one.
The Bortle scale, as well as being a simple number, is also a measure of sky brightness in terms of equivalent stellar magnitude per square arcsecond. I can never remember that Bortle 4 is, for example, 20.49–21.69 and invariably have to look it up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale
If the Bortle scale is added, could it be something along the lines of “Bortle 4 = 20.49-21.69 mag/(sq-as)”?
Thanks,
Paul