AGS Aurora service
The info area filled with graphs to the right of the webpage will show you if northern lights are visible at the moment. To see northern lights from Denmark (latitude 56) the Kp-index must be at least 5 meaning high activity and the Bz value must be negative indicating the auroras are moving south towards lower latitudes.
High School Astronomy
at AGS - Alssundgymnasiet Sønderborg - Denmark
Solar X-rays status:
Geomagnetic field status:
Planetary Kp-index must be at least 5:
Planetary Kp-index measured in space:
Look for negative Bz component:
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Students from AGS wins 6th prize in ESO 'Catch a Star' contest.
On October 8th 2011 Earth passed through the dusty remains of the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. This happens in October every year and is known as the Draconid meteors. The astronomy class observed the meteors and counted in total 204 shooting stars in 2 hours and 5 minutes resulting at an average of 1.6 per minute. At 20:05 the rate peaked at 3.8 shooting stars per minute.
An article based on both these results and the orbit of comets in general were submitted in the contest 'Catch a Star' published by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The team consisting of Rune Lassen, Morten B. Ochelka, Anders Goosmann og Nivethan Shanmugaratnam finished 6th and won the book 'Hidden Universe'.
All shooting stars in the Draconid meteors originate in the constellation Draco.
A Draconid shooting across the sky above our observatory on Oct 8th.
NASA prediction of the Meteor rates.
Our observatory on the roof of the school.
The diagram above shows the results of our observations:
Total shooting stars: 204
Average rate (events/min): 1.8
Maximum rate: 3.6
Timespan (min): 125