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NASA THEMIS EPO Petersburg Station

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/THEMIS/Ground/UCLA-EPO/PTRS

Description

Petersburg (PTRS) station is located in Petersburg, Alaska, USA. This station has an Educational Public Outreach magnetometer operated by UCLA. EPO magnetometers should be used carefully, as they may be subject to environmental noise.
Magnetic Latitude: 59.93
Magnetic Longitude: 283.55
UT of Magnetic Midnight: 9.7167
Magnetic Declination: 21.89
Magnetic coordinates obtained by calculation using the CGM online calculator with IGRF 2008 at altitude of 0 km. Magnetic declination obtained using CGM online calculator with IGRF 2007.

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Observatory

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/THEMIS/Ground/UCLA-EPO/PTRS
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
NASA THEMIS EPO Petersburg Station
AlternateName
PTRS
ReleaseDate
2010-09-24 21:22:14Z
Description

Petersburg (PTRS) station is located in Petersburg, Alaska, USA. This station has an Educational Public Outreach magnetometer operated by UCLA. EPO magnetometers should be used carefully, as they may be subject to environmental noise.
Magnetic Latitude: 59.93
Magnetic Longitude: 283.55
UT of Magnetic Midnight: 9.7167
Magnetic Declination: 21.89
Magnetic coordinates obtained by calculation using the CGM online calculator with IGRF 2008 at altitude of 0 km. Magnetic declination obtained using CGM online calculator with IGRF 2007.

Acknowledgement
We acknowledge NASA contract NAS5-02099 and V. Angelopoulos for use of data from the THEMIS Mission. Specifically:S. Mende and C. T. Russell for use of the GMAG data
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Vassilis.Angelopoulos
2.CoInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Christopher.T.Russell
3.CoInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Stephen.B.Mende
InformationURL
Name
THEMIS Ground Magnetometer Data Center at UCLA
URL
Description

Web server for displaying and downloading THEMIS ground magnetometer data

InformationURL
Name
THEMIS Web Site
URL
Description

Description of GMAGS on THEMIS web site.

PriorIDs
spase://VMOU/Observatory/THEMIS/Ground-Magnetometers/EPO/PTRS
spase://SMWG/Observatory/THEMIS-Ground/UCLA-EPO/PTRS
ObservatoryGroupID
Location
ObservatoryRegion
Earth.Surface
CoordinateSystemName
WGS84
Latitude
56.83
Longitude
-133.16