Automatic Georeferencing of Astronaut Auroral Photography
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Abstract. Astronauts on board the International Space Station have taken thousands of high resolution, colour photographs of the aurora which could be made useful for research if their pointing information could be reconstructed. We describe a method to do this using the starfield in the images, and how the pointing can then be used to georeference the images to a similar level of accuracy as existing all sky camera images. We have used this method to make available georeferenced auroral images taken from the ISS, and here describe the resulting dataset, processing software, and how to access them.