Directory of Aurora Resources

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Aurora is the optical manifestation of energetic particles that penetrate a planet's atmosphere from the space above the atmosphere. Aurora occurs on both hemispheres on Earth at high latitudes, but is also found on other planets.

Resources in This Category

• Alaska Science Forum: Aurora

  http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/aurora.html
  Large article archive by a variety of authors offering explanations of phenomena related to aurora.

• Asahi Aurora Classroom

  http://www.gi.alaska.edu/asahi/
  Provides plenty of information on the aurora including how and where to see it, FAQ, myths, images and scientific facts.

• Aurora Borealis Page

  http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html
  Includes various image galleries, tips on spotting the lights, an FAQ, and related links.

• Aurora Borealis Photo

  http://www.mosquitonet.com/~abp/
  Offers prints for sale by Fairbanks, Alaska-based photographer Jack Finch. Galleries are organized by type and color.

• Aurora Gallery

  http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_all.html
  Photos from many photographers and places, sorted by auroral event.

• Aurora November 2001

  http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~krk/auroraNov_2001.html
  Pictures taken during the big storm on 5 November, 2001, in Iowa.

• Auroral Acoustics

  http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/projects/aurora/
  Project to study the sounds and acoustical effects related to geomagnetic storms and aurora borealis.

• Auroral Particles and Imagery

  http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/Aurora/
  Stories, data from DMSP satellite, movies from space, links and publications, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

• Auroras 2000.com : Presented by the Exploratorium

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/auroras/
  Guide to the Northern and Southern Lights. News, NASA images, forecasts, and background on the aurora.

• Auroras Now!

  http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/
  Shows images from an all-sky camera operated by the Sodankylä geophysical observatory in Finland. Part of the ESA Space Weather Applications Pilot Project.

• AuroraWatch UK

  http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/
  Image gallery and explanations with updated solar activity chart.

• Automatic Geophysical Observatories

  http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/atmos/data/
  All-sky images and keagrams from South Pole.

• Borealis 2000

  http://borealis2000.com/
  Photo gallery of aurora borealis, meteor showers, and planetary alignments hosted by photographer Dirk Obudzinski. Includes news and sky forecasts.

• Comparative Aeronomy in the Solar System

  http://www.bu.edu/csp/uv/cp-aeronomy/aeronomy-sol-sys.html
  Workshop, discussion group, links for topics related to aurora on other planets in the solar system.

• Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer (FAST)

  http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/
  Polar orbiting satellite for auroral studies.

• Home of the Northern Lights

  http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/aurora/aurora.html
  Image Gallery of aurora photos, instruction and tips for taking auroral photos

• How to Find and Photograph Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)

  http://www.venhaus1.com/photographaurora.html
  Describes equipment, techniques, prediction of visibility. Includes a brief description of the phenomenon and some photographs.

• Hubble Images of Jupiter's Aurora

  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/hst6.html
  Jupiter's auroral emissions and small auroral spots associated with the flux tube of jovian satellites.

• Jupiter's Aurora

  http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/jupiter/aurora.htm
  Images taken by the Galileo spacecraft.

• Kjell Henriksen Observatory

  http://kho.unis.no/
  Optical observatory on Svalbard (Spitzbergen), associated with University of Alaska and University of Tromsø. Includes information about how to get there, data and observarions, and the history of the observatory.

• Latest IMAGE-WIC (wide-band imaging camera) image

  http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/image/latest_wic.html
  Real-time images of the entire auroral oval from space.

• Museum of Time

  http://www.angelfire.com/movies/timelapse/
  Time lapse photography of aurora (Netherlands).

• Neptune Aurora

  http://www.windows2universe.org/neptune/magnetosphere/N_aurora.html
  There is even aurora on Neptune.

• NOAA POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite)

  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/
  Real-time auroral activity derived from satellite.

• Painted sky: the aurora

  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/auroras.html
  Image gallery of auroral photos from the ground, from space, and graphics related to aurora.

• Polar Visible Imaging Investigations/Visible Imaging System

  http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/www/vis/
  Real-time images from space, gallery of movies, data, instrument description.

• Proton Precipitation into the Atmosphere

  http://www.bu.edu/csp/uv/proton/proton.html
  Workshops, discussion group, links.

• Rice Space Institute Outreach

  http://space.rice.edu/RSI/epolinks.html
  Links to educational space weather pages, including the "Museums Teaching Planet Earth".

• Saturn's Aurora

  http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1998/05/
  High quality Hubble Space Telescope images.

• Secrets of the Polar Aurora

  http://www.phy6.org/Education/aurora.htm
  Detailed overview of the polar aurora, including where to see it, its causes, its relation to solar and interplanetary phenomena, the type of light, artificial auroras.

• Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory

  http://www.sgo.fi/
  Observations and research related to northern lights, aeronomy, atmospheric chemistry, and related science.

• Sondrestrom Research Facility

  http://isr.sri.com/
  Auroral observatory with a large complement of instruments (including incoherent scatter radar) on the west coast of Greenland.

• The Aurora Page

  http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/
  Offers an aurora forecast, related links, and image galleries.

• The Northern Lights

  http://www.nfb.ca/film/northern_lights/
  Documentary video examining the phenomenon of the northern lights or aurora borealis.

• Tromsø Auroral Observatory

  http://geo.phys.uit.no/index.html
  Articles about the Aurora and the Geomagnetic Field. [Norwegian, English, German]

• Uranus Aurora

  http://www.windows2universe.org/uranus/magnetosphere/U_aurora.html
  Explanation of how aurora is different on Uranus

• Yukon Aurora Forecast

  http://www.auroraforecast.com/
  Predictions updated every 15 minutes for the Yukon-Alaska area.

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