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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2010, Article ID 963650, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2010/963650 Research Article Automated Observations of the Earthshine 1 1 ´ 2 ˜ ´ ´ 2 P. R. Goode, S. Shoumko, E. Palle, and P. Montanes-Rodrıguez 1 Big Bear Solar Observatory, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA 2 Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Via Lactea s/n, La Laguna, E38200 Tenerife, Spain ´ Correspondence should be addressed to E. Palle, epalle@iac.es Received 16 June 2009; Accepted 9 November 2009 Academic Editor: Taro Kotani Copyright © 2010 P. R. Goode et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The overall reflectance of sunlight from Earth is a fundamental parameter for climate studies. We have designed and implemented small aperture, remote control telescopes in Big Bear Solar Observatory in California and in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. These telescopes observe the earthshine to obtain a global mean terrestrial reflectance utilizing a coronagraph-like design for long exposures of the dark of the Moon and have internal moving parts in the optical train, which presented some design and control problems. 1. Introduction the scattering from the Moon as a function of the phase of the Moon [ 1]. At about 1% precision on individual nights, Fo