Aurora Borealis

About the aurora

Real-time images and data of the aurora

Here are several sites which display images and/or data from auroral observatories and/or satellites. Some of these sites only update in season or when there are observers on station.

The Northern Lights Station in Adventdalen, near Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Geospace Environment Data Display System (GEDDS)
Recent images and summary from the Poker Flat Scientific Data Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska
Geomagnetic data from Nordlysobservatoriet, Tromsø, Norway
CUTLASS Auroral Radar (Finland)
Current images from the NOAA POES satellite
Current image from the UV Imager on the POLAR spacecraft
Current image from the VIS Imager on the POLAR spacecraft
ACE Real-Time Solar Wind Data from the WIND spacecraft
Latest solar image from the SOHO spacecraft

Using sounding rockets to study the aurora

Poker Flat Research Range
Andøya Rocket Range
NASA Space Science News
Sounding Rocket Investigations of the Ionosphere (Cornell University)

A couple of the bigger rocket programs in which I have participated:

CAPER -- launched Jan 21, 1999:

CAPER launch decision site team
CAPER launch (NASA Space Science News)
CAPER summary (NASA Space Science News)
CAPER launch (Andøya Rocket Range)
CAPER home page (Cornell University)
CAPER project page (Northern Lights Station, Svalbard)

SCIFER -- launched Jan 25, 1995:

SCIFER summary (NASA Space Science News)
SCIFER launch (Andøya Rocket Range)
SCIFER home page (Cornell University)
SCIFER home page (University of New Hampshire)
SCIFER optical and magnetometer data (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
SCIFER home page (Northern Lights Station, Svalbard)
SCIFER home page (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)