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Extraterrestrials?
FMI is dedicated to operating their BACC #4 camera at Muonio until the very end of the optical season. They do not want to miss a single aurora event even! See image of unexpected guest inspecting the all-sky camera lens
here.
April 1, 2023
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Star visit
Irish star comedian and UK television presenter Dara Ó Briain has visited our observatory.
Katie and Lisa turned the aurora ON, and Dara reported from the roof of KHO that is was a brilliant
light show!See tweet here. Januar 29, 2023
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HYPSO-1 First publication!
The first scientific paper with data from our hyperspectral imager onboard the HYPSO-1 satellite is now published in
Remote sensing. The satellite is one of the smallest of its kind performing ocean spectral
scanning with high signal to noise characteristics.Read paper. Januar 28, 2023
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Instrumental boost
Several new groups and instruments have finally joined the observatory after the pandemic.
Two high-end interferometer systems, a single wavelength all-sky camera,
a Near-InfraRed (NIR) spectrometer, a NIR camera and a GNSS receiver have been installed successfully.
See below links for further information.
Januar 10, 2023
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# | New instruments | Group |
1 | The Hot Oxygen Doppler Imager (HODI) | NJIT |
2 | Fabry Perot Interferometer (FPI) | PRIC |
3 | Single-wavelength Auroral Imager (SAI) | PRIC |
4 | Near InfraRed Aurora and airglow Spectrograph - 2 (NIRAS-2) | NIPR |
5 | Near InfraRed Aurora Camera (NIRAC) | NIPR |
6 | Global Navigation Satellite Systems receiver (GNSS) | UCB |