Auroral Activity on May 27, 1996

ISTP Event

May 27, 1996 was selected as one ISTP Event to study the southern aurora during a perigee pass of POLAR. On this page, however, we are looking at the northern hemisphere for global scale studies involving UVI images and ground based IS radars.

Raw Data (May 27, 1996)

These images are raw UVI images, not calibrated and not transformed into geographic coordinate systems. One image every 5 minutes (approximately) is shown to give a general overview of the auroral activity. The period from 12:12-12:42 shows the southern hemisphere perigee pass, all other images are northern hemisphere aurora.

Summary plots from 27 May with one sample image about every 5 minutes (LBH-long filter)

00:07-04:09 UT	04:16-08:34 UT	08:40-10:17 UT
12:12-12:42 UT	15:17-19:28 UT	19:35-22:12 UT