Аннотация:Results of simultaneous Meteor-3M and auroral imager observations are used for study of features of auroral precipitations. It is taken into account that the threshold of auroral imagers does not exceed the brightening, which can be connected with plasma sheet electron precipitation without field-aligned acceleration. Accelerated electron fluxes are the sources of upward field-aligned currents. Values of such currents are estimated using Meteor-3M electron flux observations. Obtained values give the possibility to estimate transverse magnetospheric current supported by observed field-aligned currents.