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The dayside aurora is often overhead at the South Pole, and within view on each clear day. An optical study of auroras from the South Pole station began in 2006 using a multichannel scanning photometer, with a view to examining in detail the dynamics and morphology of dayside aurora. It operated there through the following five Austral winters to 2010. A primary purpose was to study how the dayside...