The Night Sky Live: Publications




PHOTZIP: A Lossy FITS Image Compression Algorithm that Protects User-defined Levels of Photometric Integrity.
Lior Shamir & Robert J. Nemiroff, 2005, The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 129(1), pp. 539-546.
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A Fuzzy Logic Based Algorithm For Finding Astronomical Objects in Wide-Angle Frames.
Lior Shamir & Robert J. Nemiroff, 2005, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Vol. 22(2), pp. 111-117.


Toward a Continuous Record of the Sky
Robert J. Nemiroff & Bruce J. Rafert, 1999, The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 111, pp.886-897, 1999.

Using Fuzzy Logic for Automatic Processing of Astronomical Pipelines
Lior Shamir & Robert J. Nemiroff, 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3614, pp. 634-637.
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A Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithm for Cosmic Ray Hit Rejection from Single Images
Lior Shamir, 2005, Astronomical Notes (Astronomische Nachrichten), Vol. 326(6), pp. 428-431.


All-sky Relative Opacity Mapping Using Night Time Panoramic Images
Lior Shamir & Robert J. Nemiroff, 2005, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 117, No. 835, pp. 972-977.
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Analysis of Meteor Trails Using the Night Sky Live Network of Panoramic CCD Cameras
Lior Shamir, 2005, WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization, Vol. 33(3), pp. 75-80.


Software Design for Panoramic Astronomical Pipeline Processing
Lior Shamir, Robert J. Nemiroff, David O. Torrey, Wellesley E. Pereira, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 366(2), pp. 353-357, 2006.


Which Observatories Have the Clearest Skies? A Comparative Analysis of 2004 as Seen by the Night Sky Live Global Network of CONCAMs
W. E. Pereira, V. W. Muzzin, L. Shamir, R. J. Nemiroff & M. J. Merlo, Submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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