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12 years in service!
Version 8.5 of our Aurora Forecast 3D app is now published in Google Play (Android) and App Store (iOS). The work to provide a free of charge mobile auroral forecast service dates back to 2011. It is now downloaded more than 50k+ and is rated above 4 on a 5-point rating scale.
More info and computer downloads here.
June 2, 2023

Long-range hypserspectral imaging
An experiment to test out telescopes as front optics to our Hyper Spectral Imager version 6 (HSI v6) has started. The aim is to improve the spatial resolution and evaluate a possible design for the next generation HYPSO-3 satellite. See web page here.
April 25, 2023

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

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

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

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

#New instrumentsGroup
1The Hot Oxygen Doppler Imager (HODI)NJIT
2Fabry Perot Interferometer (FPI)PRIC
3Single-wavelength Auroral Imager (SAI)PRIC
4Near InfraRed Aurora and airglow Spectrograph - 2 (NIRAS-2)NIPR
5Near InfraRed Aurora Camera (NIRAC)NIPR
6Global Navigation Satellite Systems receiver (GNSS)UCB