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Advanced component models used to construct or inspect individual contributors. Physical and empirical NSB component models.
Each submodule in this directory corresponds to one contributor to the night-sky background:
zodiacal— sunlight scattered by interplanetary duststarlight— unresolved integrated starlightairglow— emission from Earth’s upper atmospheremoonlight— scattered moonlight in the atmosphere
Scientific role: the total NSB prediction is a sum of components with different physical origins and different dependencies on sky direction, time, and observing conditions. Keeping them separate lets the evaluator expose both totals and scientifically interpretable per-component contributions.