System design and initial results of all sky imager at South Pole

• Main Authors: Masaki Okada, Masaki Ejiri, Shoichi Okano, Makoto Taguchi, Shu Takeshita
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1997
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Austral; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00009010; https://doaj.org/article/fec4d9326dc54c41b10c97eb7c4dd668

We have developed an all-sky optical imager (ASI) which was installed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (SP) in the 1996-1997 austral summer season. ASI consists of a highly sensitive (monochromatic and panchromatic) optical lens, CCD camera, and a data-taking workstation. The ASI is equipped...