From tomorrow until August 25 and Thursday 27, the magnificent show of the northern lights can be seen from any computer between 23:30 and 24:00 UT, Iceland same local time, 1: 30-02: 00 CET (UT means universal time and CET Central European Time) through the live broadcast Shelios 2015 to carry out the expedition.
This issue has moved south of Greenland and Iceland to see the Northern Lights, as only from the polar regions of our planet is this spectacular astronomical phenomenon observed produced by solar activity, which appears before our eyes as light curtains diverse and changing colors.
The connections are held daily from Iceland (farm Hestheimar) and can be followed live sky-portal. tv. In addition to the Consortium of University of Catalunya Serveis (CSUC), Spanish supercomputing centers Extremadura Center of Advanced Technologies (CETA) and Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA) also replicate the relay portal to enable sky-live.tv massive influx of Internet users.
The IAC, in the European project GLORIA (Global Array Intelligent Robotic-TELESCOPES, Global Network of Robotic Telescopes), made live broadcasts of the phenomenon. The proposal also includes GLORIA share images and educational activities for students.
The expedition Shelios 2015 is coordinated by the IAC researcher Miquel Serra-Ricart, who explains that “the sun is still showing signs of high activity since it peaked in early 2014. In the year 2015 may be the last opportunity to see high auroral activity as there are indications that make us think that the next solar maximum, here approximately 11 years, will be less intense than the current “.
celestial phenomenon
The phenomenon of them polar auroras when very energetic particles originating from the Sun (solar wind occurs ) reach the Earth’s atmosphere. The entry of these particles is governed by the Earth’s magnetic field and, therefore, can only penetrate the North and South (Southern Lights) pole (aurora borealis) and.
The auroras are formed by huge bright, rapidly changing and various shades curtains. The emission of light occurs in upper atmosphere (between 100 and 400 km) and is caused by the solar wind crashes (mainly electrons) with oxygen atoms (green tones) or nitrogen molecules (reds).
Citizen Science
GLORIA is an innovative and ambitious citizen science project that offers free access to a network of robotic telescopes via a web interface (users. gloria-project.eu). The IAC participates in the project through the telescope Open Disclosure (TAD).
GLORIA aims to investigate astronomy leveraging the collective intelligence of the community. To do this you give opportunity to all Internet users to collaborate. Right now, users can contribute to the calculation of the solar activity through images of the solar surface (photosphere) obtained with the telescope network.
Global Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science (GLORIA) It is funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 / 2007-2012) under grant agreement 283783. The project is coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
The 13 partners (UPM, ASU-CAS, CSIC, CTU, FZU-CAS, IAC, INAF, SAO, UCD, UCH, UMA, UOX, UWAR) from eight countries (Spain, Republic participate . Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Poland and Chile)
Source: Trends 21
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