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StatusOptical season shutdown in progress, 01.03.2021
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Doctora K. Herlingshaw!
January 18, 2021
Salute! Katie Herlingshaw has defended her PhD thesis titled: "Characterising Mesoscale Fast Flow Channels in the Polar Cap Ionosphere" The defense was on Friday 22nd of January 2021.

Read thesis here.

Video trip!
January 15, 2021
Do you want to see the inside of KHO? Join Head engineer Mikko Syrjäsuo, and PhD students Katie Herlingshaw and Nina Kristine Eriksen on a video trip through the observatory.
Watch Youtube video.
Aurora Forecast 3D Demo
January 30, 2021
The Aurora Forecast 3D is a tool to track down where the aurora is located in the sky from any location on planet. It renders Earth in 3D with rotation and scaling at your fingertips. This video demonstrates the app.
Watch Youtube video.
Day/Nightside aurora?
December 29, 2020
Our very own Professor Dag Lorentzen explains the difference between dayside and nightside aurora. This article was also published in the local news paper Svalbardposten. See norwegian translation here.
Read english version here.
Master Lidia Luque!
December 2020
Congratulation to Master Lidia Luque! She investigated ionospheric signatures of energy input and turbulence in the polar ionosphere using the spectral width parameter measured by the SuperDARN radar (which been used as a proxy for ionospheric turbulence). Lidia examined specific cases of high spectral width and linked them to signatures of energy input into the polar ionosphere using the EISCAT radar and KHO optics. Read thesis here.
BACC #5 operational!
December 18, 2020
We are very happy to welcome the Tromsø Geophysical Observatory (TGO) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway to join the Boreal Aurora Camera Constellation (BACC) with camera number 5. It is installed and on-line today at the old Skibotn Observatory.

View quick look here.
Interactive app
December 10, 2020
Version 6.9 of the Aurora Forecast 3D app now includes detailed target identification. Star constellation, planet, satellite and location information are linked to the Web. The main purpose is to create an interactive learning experience.

Computer downloads here.
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