Welcome to KHO ...

Part of the Center of Excellence (BCSS)

Status	Non-optical season. Dome heat OFF, 28.09.2020
Road	Closed - icy
Repairs	New toilets installed!
Garage	50% reduced in space
Bandwagon	Parked in Garage Mine 7

New neighbor?

October 24, 2020

To our big surprise a new construction appeared out of nowhere by the road up to the observatory last week. It turned out to be a new vault storing precious American goods for the future. We hope to be invited to the grand opening.

More info here.

Master Breedveld!

July 2, 2020

Congratulation to Master Mikkel J. Breedveld! He has studied polar orbiting POES / MetOP satellite precipitation data and made new auroral ovals for us. His work will be used in our Aurora Forecast 3D app.

Read thesis here.

Silver Bullet is upgraded!

June 17, 2020

After 40 years of service, the rotary motor system of the Silver Bullet spectrometer died on us. Luckily, it happened at the end of the dark season . A new high precision servo system is now installed.

Read details here.

TU/e Trainee

June 12, 2020

Together with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) we congratulate Adrienne Esmeralda Oudijk on her Erasmu+ Traineeship at UNIS. She has used our Hyper Spectral Imager v6 and found how to compress the spectral data cube by a factor of 10^-4 with minimum loss of spatial resolution and spectral signature.

Read report here.

Linux test release!

May 8, 2020

Our popular Aurora Forecast 3D app is now finally available for testing on Linux platforms. The app is compiled in Windows 10 loaded with Delphi RAD studio 10.3 Architect using FMXLinux onto a 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Linux computer.

Goto download page with instructions here.

Snowhow!

January 1, 2020

KHO is part of the TV series named Snowhow that starts on 2nd January 2020. The theme is the Nordic winter and how we cope with it. It is produced by NRK in association with SVT, YLE and NDR.

See NRK link here.

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