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	Welcome to The Aurora Page Originally created by Michael Dolan
Photos in this column by Jan Curtis	Aurora over Hancock, MI looking north, July 25, 2004, 2:18am Photos by Claudia Perko
	A source for Information, links and images about the "Northern Lights" on-line since the Web began

Forecasts!

The MOST COMMON Aurora E-mail Questions we get everyday: "Where and/or when can I see the aurora?" The Aurora is like the weather, the Aurora is a result of space weather.

Our favorite site to see when and where the Aurora may best be seen and the predicted intensity is the NOAA POES polar map:

Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES
NOAA POES
Daily Report from Space Environment Center
Space Weather Center
Customizable forecast maps for your area (Aurora forecast maps for Alaska from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.)
Candian Space Science Data Auroral Oval
CARISMA (Canadian Array for Realtime Investigations of Magnetic Activity)
Johns Hopkins Physics Auroral Oval
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch or Global Change Master Directory
Auroral Activity Observation Network
Geospace Environment Data Display System
Australian Space Weather Agency site
SEC Space Environment Center & Today's Space Weather
Aurora Sentry
Night Sky Live

The Aurora Page Special Links:

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life, At Home.
Put those spare CPU cycles to use (we are!).
Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Hubble Space Telescope Image Archive

Images... Images... Original Gallery of Images!

Shots of the Aurora from Earth Archives
- Over looking the Great Lake Superior - Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula of Michigan
- Shots from Alaska - Photographed and Contributed by Jan Curtis; See Curtis' Page 9. Green snow and majestic aurora!
- Jan Curtis' Images of the Aurora Web Site ----Even more Alaska Photos & More Links
Aurora from space - satellite and space shuttle images
Some shots of the sun - the source of it all.
NASA Magnetosphere Imager
Shooting Aurora

Aurora Detectors, building your own...

Mark Haun's The Aurora Alarm An Automated Detection System for the Northern Lights.

Enlightening links to follow...

Aurora sites

University of Alaska Fairbanks - Geophysical Institute. Forecast maps, movies and imagery, research efforts and general information on the "Northern Lights".
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics - Informative pages on the aurora (FAQ's, stories, and images)
- Be sure to check out the Auroral Large Imaging System (ALIS) Control Center
University of Oulu, Finland
- Space Physics Group of Oulu
- Explanations and current research on the aurora.

The University of Calgary Department of Physics & Astronomy Institute for Space Reasearch (ISR) has been doing ground-based and space-born measurements of the aurora and upper atmosphere for over 25 years. Links to space and ground based research equipment, techniques, and images. Simulation of Aurora
ISR's ground based Portable Auroral Imager

Looking for a place to do some research on the aurora (or other spacey things?) Check out the Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks AK.

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Geophysical Observatory of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
Northern Lights Norway Site
Aurora Sounds Stephen P. McGreevy's ground-based ELF-VLF recordings
The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere: Information about the Earth's magnetosphere and includes several pages with not-too-technical information on the physics of the aurora and history of auroral observation.

Space and Sun sites

Space Environment Laboratory Recent and archived images of Sol and obtain space weather conditions and forecasts.

Visit this radiant source of information about The Sun ...where it all begins
Rice University's Department of Space Physics and Astronomy, where information about solar wind and the magnetosphere are of great interest! They also talk about Space Weather and its origins.
Visit the Thermospheric and Ionosphere Physics Section at the US Naval Research Laboratory.
X-Ray Astronomy Branch Home Page at the US Naval Research Laboratory.
William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences located at the University of Texas in Dallas, Texas.
San Diego Space Physics
UCLA Space Science Center (SSC)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

Astronomical amounts of information can be found here!

The Space Web Reference Page,the most comprehenive resource for space physics
AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics Resources On The Internet
Ames Area Amateur Astronomers
STSCI: Astronomy Sites on the Internet

For Kids!
Due to new federal regulations, please don't send us e-mail, especially if you are younger than13. Instead, have an adult send the message. Have your parents, teachers and school librarian contact us if you need further assistance.

Informative reading on the aurora.
From the Exploratorium comes The Aurora Tutorial
Be sure to pick up a copy of The Aurora Watcher's Handbook by T. Neil Davis (University of Alaska Press, 1992; ISBN 0-912006-60-9).

Welcome comments, inquiries or questions... direct them to ehgroth@mtu.edu We try to keep all links alive; Links last checked on March 21, 2008

Please note: We cannot answer e-mail questions about Aurora forecasts for auroral intensity or time in your area. The intensity of the Aurora is unpredictable like the weather, but the links on this page will help you to calculate the extent and intensity and times. This web site is presented as a collection of links and images.

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From the Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences Department----
Visit these educational web sites:

You are invited to visit the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum web site to see some "down to earth" gems, crystals and minerals at Seaman Mineral Museum, The Official Mineralogical Museum of Michigan

Volcanoes Page: One of the top sites for volcano information

Bryophyte Ecology: Janice Glime's textbook on Bryophyte Ecology

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