Making 3D movies of Northern Lights
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2017-10-18 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.06349,
title = {Making 3D movies of Northern Lights},
author = {Eric Hivon and Jean Mouette and Thierry Legault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.06349},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
9 pages, 5 figures, matches the version published in J. Space Weather Space Clim. 7, A24 (open access). Paper and code available at http://www.iap.fr/aurora3d