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The lightmeter should be installed in a place with good all sky coverage.
In town with a possible compromise of minimal (remote)
lights in the all-sky field of view. Some obstruction below 10°, say
does not harm.

If you need a longer cable, use a [[USB-Ethernet-extender]]. The
instrument is all-weather proof and built to run day and night.

Follow the software installation instructions for the instrument version you got on the
[[Lightmeter-Driver]] page.

It should be plug-in the instrument into a USB-port running the windows installer or makefile and
making sure the c-USB libraries are installed. Contact lightmeter@astronomy2009.at
immediately if there is any inconvenience or problem.

After you got a few clear nights - also some with Moon - send
the data to lightmeter@astronomy2009.at We will provide a calibration and instructions
how to upload the data to the server provided by the German Virtual observatory,
see also [[Lightmeter-database]].

The data-rate is about 3MB a day at the standard 1 Hz sampling rate.

=Installation Examples=

*[[Kepler-Sternwarte_Linz|Kepler-Sternwarte Linz, Austria]]
*[[Platz_der_Vereinten_Nationen|Berlin, Platz der Vereinten Nationen, Germany]]
*[[MPIA_Heidelberg|Heidelberg, Germany]]
*[[Cerro_Paranal%2C_Chile|Cerro Paranal, Chile]]
*[[Yonago|Yonago, Japan]]
*[[Lindenberg|Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory, Germany]]
*[[Gera-D%C3%BCrrenebersdorf|Gera, Germany]]

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GuentherWuchterl: Created page with "The lightmeter should be installed in a place with good all sky coverage. In town with a possible compromise of minimal (remote) lights in the all-sky field of view. Some obst..."