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• Main Author: AYU LESTARI (NIM 10304009), INDRI
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/28052
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

<p align="justify">There are some criterions that have to be confirmed in order to decide the best possible location for astronomical site. One of those is the location which has relatively high sky clearness along the year. Before site survey, an objective assessment of sky clearness using meteorological satellite data should be made. It would help us to decide the best candidate.<p>Hidayat et al. (2007) have done some researches for Indonesian climate using low spatial resolution meteorological satellite data provided by NOAA Climate Diagnostic Center. The results give Nusa Tenggara Timur as the best candidate. A higher spatial resolution meteorological data is then available, so Hidayat et al. did the similar research at the next year by adapting the methodology used by Erasmus (2000) in order to find out the average sky clearness of Indonesia in 2006 and 2007. For better result, it's better to use more data for this climate study. A nine years (2000-2008) data are used for this sky clearness' study to try to find out specific locations from the best candidate in Indonesia which has the highest sky clearness. The results will be compared with Bosscha Observatory. <p align="justify"> <br />