The Hessdalen Automatic Measurement Station (or Hessdalen AMS) is an automatically working observation station in the Hessdalen

Hessdalen

Hessdalen is a village and a long valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located approximately south of the city of Trondheim, approximately north of Røros mining town, and about southwest of Ålen/Renbygda. About 150 people live in the valley.In the...

 area in the municipality of Holtålen

Holtålen

Holtålen is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ålen. Other villages include Hessdalen, Aunegrenda, Haltdalen, and Renbygda.-General information:...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is used for registering Hessdalen light

Hessdalen light

The Hessdalen Light is unexplained light usually seen in the Hessdalen valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.-History and description:Unusual lights have been reported here since 1940s or earlier...

s. It has been in service since 7 August 1998, and it is equipped with a magnetometer

Magnetometer

A magnetometer is a measuring instrument used to measure the strength or direction of a magnetic field either produced in the laboratory or existing in nature...

, two black and white TV cameras, and one colour TV camera.

The AMS regularly registers light phenomena. Since it only measures a restricted numbers of parameters, it is not able to explain all the recorded light phenomena.

External links

• Web page of the Hessdalen AMS