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AuroraMAX: Live Video of Auroras, Direct From Canada

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<BIG>AuroraMAX: Live Video of Auroras, Direct From Canada</BIG>
<B><BIG>By Andrew Fazekas</BIG></B>
for Breaking Orbit​


For folks in the Northern Hemisphere, fall is the best time to see the magical displays of the aurora borealis, when nights can be set ablaze with colors as curtains of ghostly glows dance across the sky.
(See new aurora pictures from an early September solar storm.)

But unless you live in high latitudes, such as northern Canada and Alaska, you probably haven't had too many chances to see auroras?until now.
Viewing the northern lights just hit prime time this week with the launch of a LIVE online observatory installed on the outskirts of the city of Yellowknife, Canada.

Called AuroraMAX, the new web portal has been in the works for more than a year and is a collaborative venture between the Canadian Space Agency, the University of Calgary, and Yellowknife's Astronomy North educational center.


auroramax-home.jpg

A camera equipped with a fish-eye lens snaps an image of the entire overhead sky every ten seconds, making near real-time views of auroras available to anyone with an Internet connection.

Only a few days old and with a bright moon washing out the skies over the observatory, there have not been too many showy streaming videos just yet.

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http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com.../2010/09/auroramax-live-video-of-auroras.html


Canadian Space Agency
AuroraMAX

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/
 
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