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Since April 2012, a simple white-light all-sky video camera (Watec, WAT-120N+) has been operating at South Pole Station in Antarctica (SPA, 90°S, -74° GMLat, MLT=UT-3.5 h), to monitor auroral dynamics for 24 hours during the austral winter. This camera can provide high-time resolution auroral images taken with an exposure time of ~2 Hz (0.5 s). The original high-time resolution image data are stored on the on-site hard disks, while the 0.1 Hz (10 s) downsampling image data are transferred to NIPR. The daily data products (all-sky image summary plot, keogram, and movie) produced from the downsampling image data are available for quicklook. The original 2 Hz image data are also freely available on request.

Related Links: Antarctic Space Sciences www.space-antarctica.org (Prof. Allan Weatherwax, Siena College) All-Sky Imager at South Pole Station www.southpole-aurora.org (Dr. Yusuke Ebihara, Kyoto University) Interhemispheric Conjugate Aurorra Monitoring polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~aurora/icam/ (Dr. Akira Kadokura, NIPR) Optical observations in Tromso and Longyearbyen polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~eiscat/optical/ (Dr. Yasunobu Ogawa, NIPR) Acknowledgement: This project has been conducted as one of the general research observations (AP2) in Antarctica by the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR, Japan) in 2011-2013. This is also part of a joint project between Siena College (USA, PI: Prof. Allan Weatherwax), Kyoto University (Japan), and NIPR with support provided from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under award ANT-0638587.