Processamento dati per AMON - ES (Airglow MOnitor - Extended Station)

The present work is based on my two-month internship in a research about an upper atmosphere's phenomenon called airglow. The research was and is still conducted by the Institute of Experimental Physics in Ko¿ice, Slovakia. The first part of the presentation is an overview about the phenomenon while the second part contains a summary of what I did during my experience. All the information about airglow have been collected looking through specific scientific papers and books regarding the topic. Airglow is a light emission that occurs in atmosphere's upper layers. It's caused by the decay of meta stable molecular states created by ion recombination, indeed outer space radiations interfere with upper atmosphere's composition creating ionised molecules all over the daytime hours. Due to its dependence by many factors (as solar cycles, whether etc¿), airglow is a very dynamic phenomenon. The purpose of the research is to identify some patterns in airglow intensity and shape variations trying to create some long-term model. The data are provided by an all sky camera, a single-pixel photo-multiplier (AMON) and a GNSS receiver. The goal is to correlate qualitative and quantitative information about light emission in different wavelengths with electron content in various part of the sky in order to understand the correlation between atmosphere's composition and airglow emission. My role during the internship was to code some script in Python. First of all I had to calculate when the osservative condition were good enough for our measurement (basing on moon and sun position but also on air transmittance) and then I started to write some codes in order to collect the data provided by the instruments and giving them suitable format for the study's aim. I joined the project at his early beginning so for now there aren't any results, but the future goal is to understand how to measure airglow in an efficient way and monitoring it continuously.