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 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