Insitu Insight UAS Stuart Creek Alaska Midnight Sun, 22 June, 2007 GI & Poker Flat Research Range ground-based optical observations Donald Hampton Research Assistant Prof. Geophysical Institute Optical Science Manager Poker Flat Research Range (907) With support from Marilia Samara & Robert Michell (GSFC)

Station Locations Optics + Mag Mag Only

3 Optical Assets Station Video ASC Digital ASC Meridian Spectrometer Narrowfield Imager Narrowfield Spectrometer Fabry- Perot Magnet- ometer Poker Flat Y Filtered DASC 4-chan MSP Hi-Res Meridian Spectrograph ICCD Filtered EMCCD 2 (up to 6) BUNS Aerospace Photometer CESAR AMISR SDI Y Fort Yukon Y4Y4 CASCY1Y1 N N Aerospace Photometer AMISR Y Eagle NDASCNNN AMISR Y Toolik NCASCY1Y1 NNSDIY Kaktovic Y3Y3 DASCY1Y1 NNSDIY Notes: 1 Solid-state meridian spectrograph 2 Local observer required 3 Coordinated with M. Samara and R. Michell

4 Poker Digital All-Sky Camera (PKR DASC) Developed by KEO scientific Andor IXON+ EMCCD –1k x 1k pixels –16-bit digitization Telecentric optical system with filter wheel First deployed Sep 2007 –Unfiltered for 07/08 Typical operations is three-filters – nm, nm, nm at a 12.5 sec cycle time

Poker DASC - Mapping

Mapping of e- energy flux 400 km 50 km cell size See poster SM51G-4337 (Conde et al.)

7 Optical Assets Station Video ASC Digital ASC Meridian Spectrometer Narrowfield Imager Narrowfield Spectrometer Fabry- Perot Magnet- ometer Poker Flat Y Filtered DASC 4-chan MSP Hi-Res Meridian Spectrograph ICCD Filtered EMCCD 2 (up to 6) BUNS Aerospace Photometer CESAR AMISR SDI Y Fort Yukon Y4Y4 CASCY1Y1 N N Aerospace Photometer AMISR Y Eagle NDASCNNN AMISR Y Toolik NCASCY1Y1 NNSDIY Kaktovic Y3Y3 DASCY1Y1 NNSDIY Notes: 1 Solid-state meridian spectrograph 2 Local observer required 3 Coordinated with M. Samara and R. Michell

EMCCD single-filter All-sky Sample rate: 3 frames/sec

9 Optical Assets Station Video ASC Digital ASC Meridian Spectrometer Narrowfield Imager Narrowfield Spectrometer Fabry- Perot Magnet- ometer Poker Flat Y Filtered DASC 4-chan MSP Hi-Res Meridian Spectrograph ICCD Filtered EMCCD 2 (up to 6) BUNS Aerospace Photometer CESAR AMISR SDI Y Fort Yukon Y4Y4 CASCY1Y1 N N Aerospace Photometer AMISR Y Eagle NDASCNNN AMISR Y Toolik NCASCY1Y1 NNSDIY Kaktovic Y3Y3 DASCY1Y1 NNSDIY Notes: 1 Solid-state meridian spectrograph 2 Local observer required 3 Coordinated with M. Samara and R. Michell

All-sky Meridian Spectrograph “Digital MSP” Refurbished in 2009 as part of MSP upgrade study –Filter wheel removed –600 line/mm grating replaces 1200 line/mm grating –50 mm camera lens replaces 85 mm lens –200 => 500 micron slit Has now replaced MSP 15 second sample rate 6 channel operation –427.8 nm (N2+) –486.1 nm (H+) –520.0 nm (NI) –557.7 nm (OI) –630.0 nm (OI) –670.0 nm (N2) All-sky lens Grating Slit Filter Wheel Collimating lens Andor CCD

MSP Keograms

Real-time and archive access Real time data at: Archive data at: (summaries) (raw and secondary)