| Issue |
J. Space Weather Space Clim.
Volume 7, 2017
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | A24 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2017023 | |
| Published online | 13 October 2017 | |
Technical Article
Making 3D movies of Northern Lights
1
Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 6 & CNRS (UMR 7095), Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris,
98 bis Bd Arago,
75014
Paris, France
2
THALES,
19 Avenue Morane Saulnier,
78140
Vélizy Villacoublay, France
* Corresponding author: hivon@iap.fr
Received:
4
June
2017
Accepted:
16
August
2017
We describe the steps necessary to create three-dimensional (3D) movies of Northern Lights or Aurorae Borealis out of real-time images taken with two distant high-resolution fish-eye cameras. Astrometric reconstruction of the visible stars is used to model the optical mapping of each camera and correct for it in order to properly align the two sets of images. Examples of the resulting movies can be seen at http://www.iap.fr/aurora3d.
Key words: Aurora / visualisation / technical / image processing / algorithm
Astrophotography, http://www.astrophoto.fr.
© E. Hivon et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2017
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