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Is this data not polluted by the skyline? Or does it somewhat take buildings/the skyline into account, and correct for the shades of these objects?

Based on the color selected out of the night shots, I'm assuming the average is of just the plain sky, with the water and buildings cropped out.

From some fiddling in an image editor, it looks like it's a fairly small rectangle (I'd guess top left corner?)