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The Aurora Sky Station markets itself as “the best place on Earth to experience Northern Lights”, but it seems that this confidence isn’t unfounded: if you were to stay for three nights in ...
CAMS (the Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance project) is a NASA-sponsored international project that tracks and triangulates meteors during night-time video surveillance in order to map and monitor meteor showers. Data processing is housed at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute [1] in California, USA.
Abisko is also home to the Abisko Scientific Research Station, first established in 1903 approximately 31 km west of Abisko in Vassijaure. After a fire in 1910 a new station was built in its present location in Abisko in 1912 and opening in 1913. The research station was incorporated within the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1935.
Active research stations Station name Location Operating country Year established Summer population Winter population Abisko Scientific Research Station: Abisko, Sápmi Sweden 1903 12 12 Adam Mickiewicz University Polar Station: Petuniabukta, Svalbard, Norway Poland 2011 Alomar Observatory [2] Andøya Space, Andøya, Svalbard Norway 1994
Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) 2009 Xinglong Station, Hebei, China Large Millimeter Telescope: Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico Las Brisas Observatory: 1979 Colorado, US Las Campanas Observatory: La Serena, Chile: Langkawi National Observatory: 2012 Langkawi Island, Malaysia Las Cumbres Observatory Global ...
Abisko east railway station. Abisko (Swedish: [ˈɑ̌ːbɪskʊ]; [2] Northern Sami: Ábeskovvu) is a village in Sápmi , in northern Sweden, roughly 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, and near Abisko National Park, located 4 km west of the village. It had 85 inhabitants as of 2005.
The Abisko Scientific Research Station (ANS) is a field research station managed by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. Situated on the south shore of Lake Torneträsk, it lies at the edge of the Abisko National Park. The station conducts ecological, geological, geomorphological and meteorological research in subarctic environments and each ...
Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory. It is located at Anderson Mesa in Coconino County , Arizona , about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Lowell's main campus on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona .