Welcome to KHO ...
Part of the Center of Excellence (BCSS)
StatusOptical season is over. Dome heat OFF, 03.07.2020
RoadOpen but damaged by melt water
RepairsNew toilets soon
Garage50% reduced in space
BandwagonParked in Garage Mine 7
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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