Effects of Earth’s Atmosphere on Astronomical Observation

Abstract

Currently, the science of astronomy for the study of origins and evolutions is advancing both theoretically and observationally. However, there are a number of works for further developments. For example, the data extracted on earth is highly extinct due to stellar winds, background radiations and planetary atmospheres. In this work we did on the effect of atmospheric extinction on astronomical photometry and spectroscopy analytically. The appropriate radiative transfer and plank’s equation was being derived from black body radiation equation were a series of integral homology transformation were used. The method we applied is the Plancks radiation law where we did assume an exponential atmosphere that obeys the Beer-Bouguet-Lambert law of the optical depth equation. The results are in agreement with observational works and the standard theories. However, this work is limited to high approximations.