1. 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 dhampton@alaska.edu (907)455-2256 With support from Marilia Samara & Robert Michell (GSFC)

2. Station Locations Optics + Mag Mag Only

3. 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. 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 – 427.8 nm, 557.7 nm, 630.0 nm at a 12.5 sec cycle time

5. Poker DASC - Mapping

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. MSP Keograms

12. Real-time and archive access Real time data at: http://optics.gi.alaska.edu/ Archive data at: http://optics.gi.alaska.edu (summaries) http://amisr.asf.alaska.edu (raw and secondary)