...AURT is capable of imaging the northern sky in exquisite detail, despite its location on the edge of the town of Athabasca.
AUGO conducts optical and magnetic studies of the aurora borealis, and has been host to NASA’s THEMIS ground based observatory...
Athabasca University Geophysical Observatory
AUGO, and its new sister observatory, AUGO II, are leading edge facilities dedicated to studying the aurora and its underlying solar-terestrial origins using optical and magnetic instrumentation. The observatories' subauroral location, on the southern edge of the northern Auroral Oval, place it in an optimal position to observe auroral substorm activity, which has attractetd leading space physics scientists from around the world.
News and Events
AUGO II is Operational
March 13, 2012
AUGO hosted a group of four space physicists from Nagoya University's Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory (STEL)...
AUGO II
September 21, 2011
Current status of the AUGO II new observatory.
Updated January 29 2014 by AU Geophysical Observatory