Electron & Proton Auroral Imagers at Syowa Station
 
 
Instrument name Electron Auroral Imager  Proton Auroral Imager
EAI-1   EAI-2  PAI-1  PAI-2 
Wave length (FWHM) 427.8 (3.0) nm
N2+1NG
 557.7 (3.0) nm
OI 
485.0 (3.0) nm
Hβ 
 480.5 (3.0) nm
background
Observation site  Syowa Station, Antarctica 
Observation location  Geographic latitude (deg): -69.00, longitude (deg): 39.58 
Observation start 1 March, 2011    5 March, 2012 1 March, 2010  25 Feb., 2013
Observation end 15 Oct., 2022 15 Oct., 2023 15 Oct., 2023  15 Oct., 2023
Camera type   Hamamatsu back-illuminated coolded digital CCD camera C4880-21-26A Hamamatsu back-illuminated coolded digital CCD camera C4742-98-26G02 
Lens system Objective lens: Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm, F2.8, Relay lens: Nikon Engineering ASC2
Exposure time  2 sec   2 sec 7 sec   7 sec
Still image interval 15 sec
Image pixel resolution  512x512,16bit 512x512,16bit 64x64,12bit
(8x8 binning)
64x64,12bit
(8x8 binning)
Data type  original: All-sky image in TIF format; QL: JPG format
Related WEB page  EAI-1QL EAI-2QL   PAI-1QL  PAI-2QL 
Information  Observation_log / about_EAI_PAI
Principal Investigator Name: Akira Kadokura
Affiliation: National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: kadokura(at) nipr.ac.jp
 
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