{"id":177,"date":"2016-03-30T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/aurorawatchuk\/?p=177"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:20:27","slug":"aurorawatch-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/aurorawatchuk\/2016\/03\/30\/aurorawatch-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"AuroraWatch UK gets a camera!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At AuroraWatch UK we\u2019ve always enjoyed looking at your photos of the aurora but, up until now, we\u2019ve never captured any of our own. Today, however, we have some exciting news to share: AuroraWatch UK is getting its own aurora camera!<\/p>\n

Thanks to funding <\/a>from Lancaster University\u2019s Faculty of Science and Technology<\/a>, the AWUK team have purchased an all-sky camera that will be dedicated to capturing the aurora and other night sky phenomena, such as meteor showers, from the UK. This camera will be located at our magnetometer station near Aberdeen and will provide real-time colour images of the aurora.<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of the Shetland Cliff Cam capturing the aurora. \u00a9 Promote Shetland<\/p><\/div>\n

With other aurora cameras, such as the Shetland Cliff Cams<\/a>, proving highly popular with our AWUK followers, we hope that this camera will be a big success too. Some very similar set-ups to our camera are already operational and capturing images of the aurora, including a camera located in Canada owned by Thomas Jacquin Creations<\/a> and one in Svalbard (Norway) run by The University Centre in Svalbard<\/a>. To our knowledge, this is the first such dedicated auroral all-sky camera located here in the UK however.<\/p>\n\n\t\t