Contains:  Extremely wide field
Zodiacal light, Venus and air glow, AstroGG

Zodiacal light, Venus and air glow

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Picture taken on the slopes of Mauna Kea, Hawaii at 2800 metres.

In this picture, you can see (descriptions from Wikipedia):

1. Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, diffuse white glow seen in the night sky that appears to extend up from the vicinity of the Sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. Caused by sunlight scattered by space dust in the zodiacal cloud, it is so faint that either moonlight or light pollution renders it invisible.

2. Venus.

3. Air glow (diffuse and faint green glow at bottom left) is caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere, such as the recombination of atoms, which were photoionized by the sun during the day, luminescence caused by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere and chemiluminescence caused mainly by oxygen and nitrogen reacting with hydroxyl ions at heights of a few hundred kilometres.

Comments

Histogram

Zodiacal light, Venus and air glow, AstroGG

In these collections

Space landscapes