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Monochromatic extinction coefficients at four wavelengths have been obtained over a period of more than two years at the Observatorio del Teide (Izaña Tenerife) using a full disc, direct sunlight, quadruple photometer devoted to the detection of integral luminosity oscillations of the Sun. The mean extinction coefficients (0.13 at 500 nm) show a seasonal variation of about 15%, the best atmospheric conditions being in winter and autumn. Moreover, in anyone day the extinction coefficient in the afternoon is always lower than the one in the morning by ∼ 7%. A one-year period fluctuation, with an amplitude of ∼ 0.035 mag, has been identified in the instrumental magnitudes outside the atmosphere, and is interpreted as the variation produced by the different Sun-Earth distance from winter to summer. Finally, the study made to detect periodic time fluctuations in both, Sun's magnitude and extinction coefficients, has given null results at levels of ∼ 0.04 and ∼ 1.8%, respectively.
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Andersen, B., Domingo, V., Jiménez, A. et al. Diurnal photometric conditions at Teide observatory and long-term solar irradiance variations. Sol Phys 116, 391–399 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00157486
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