Aurora observations in Tähtelä 1927-1929

Auroral photography started in 1927 at the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory. These pictures of auroras are the first ones taken in Finland.

About 600 photographs of auroras were taken in less than two years. Most of the pictures of auroras had vanished in the destruction of the SGO during the war in 1944.

About 200 images were rescued in the archive of the Finnish Meteorological Institute where they have been recently found and transported to the data archive of the observatory.

Aurora pictures can be found here: Auroras_SGO1_1927_1929.pdf Auroras_SGO2_1927_1929.pdf

Metadata of the aurora pictures can be found here: Metadatafile.

Principal Investigator:

Prof. Eija Tanskanen

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory

Tähteläntie 62

FIN-99600 Sodankylä, Finland

Phone: +358-(0)294-480813

e-mail: firstname.lastname@sgo.fi