Hessdalen is a village in the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county, Norway . Hessdalen also refers to the 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) long valley that surrounds the village. Hessdalen is located in the central part of the valley, approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) south of the city of Trondheim , approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of the mining town of Røros , and about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of the village of Renbygda . About 150 people live in the village and surrounding valley.
3-507: The Hessdalen Automatic Measurement Station (or Hessdalen AMS ) is an automatically working observation station in the Hessdalen area in the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county, Norway . It is used for registering Hessdalen lights . It has been in service since 7 August 1998, and it is equipped with a magnetometer , two black and white TV cameras , and one colour TV camera. As
6-543: Is located in the village of Hessdalen and the lake Øyungen lies about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) southwest of the village. The Hessdalen area is known for the occurrence of unexplained aerial luminous phenomena called the Hessdalen lights . The phenomenon is monitored by the Hessdalen AMS . The first element is the name of the local river Hesja and the last element is the definite form of dal , which means " dale " or " valley ". This Trøndelag location article
9-399: The equipment of the station is located in a blue container, it is also known as Blue Box. The AMS regularly registers light phenomena . Since it only measures a restricted numbers of parameters, it is not able to explain all the recordings . 62°49′17″N 11°12′7″E / 62.82139°N 11.20194°E / 62.82139; 11.20194 Hessdalen Hessdalen Church
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