Earthshine & Earth's albedo
Measuring light reflected by Earth onto the dark side of the Moon, with the aim of monitoring terrestrial reflectivity and understanding instrumental and scattered-light effects.
Copenhagen · Denmark
Peter Thejll
Climate scientist and astronomer
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
I am a climate scientist and astronomer at the Danish Meteorological Institute. My work includes extreme-value statistics, climate variability, Earthshine and terrestrial albedo, time-series analysis, remote sensing, astronomical image analysis, and scientific software.
Research and projects
Climate extremes
Statistical work on extremes, climate variability and change, including sea level, temperature and precipitation.
Astronomical image analysis
Wide-field and fisheye astrometry, lunar image analysis, calibration, PSFs, scattered light, and methods for extracting quantitative information from difficult astronomical imagery.
Scientific software & electronics
Small tools and experiments for astronomy, data analysis, cameras, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and laboratory work.
From the archive
Artwork, family pages, early software and material from the Earthshine project.
