Re: Innovative paper on "Interstellar Night Sky"

From: greywolf42 (mingstb_at_marssim-ss.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:33:48 -0700

AA Institute <abdul.ahad@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:adbf5bc1.0407162234.309519da@posting.google.com...
> I have produced a totally original paper that quantifies the
> brightness of the interstellar night sky, something that I believe no
> other science authority has yet done:-
>
> http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/restricted/interstellar.html
>
> Is anyone aware of any other material out there in the big wide world
> which illustrates, in reasonably straight forward terms, an effort to
> answer this fundamental question in Astronomy: "How dark is the cosmic
> night sky beyond the kindly influence of our Sun and its family of 9
> planets?"
>
> Any feedback on my paper and all answers invited...

This was first addressed (in print) by Halley, in 1720. And first solved by
Olber (in print), in 1823.

http://www.google.com/groups?selm=vfsbqpr60h1p45%40corp.supernews.com

First quantified by Eddington, in 1926.

http://www.google.com/groups?selm=C66E1G.KM9%40well.sf.ca.us 

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