suspicious phenomenon moonlight

Gerhard Hüdepohl the care of photographs recording the image space at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to record the emission of green light from the Moon. Ray is it?

Light Phenomena  Suspicious In Month

Gerhard managed to capture the phenomenon in images consisting of several photos. He found the green rays on the Moon during the morning was sunnyconditions at Paranal Residencia.

Green light is actually not unusual. At Cerro Paranal, a mountain as high as 2,600 meters in the Atacama desert, Chile, the green light often seen in the Sun is about togo down. Photo Gerhard surprising because the phenomenon is usually found in the Sun are rare on the Moon.

Of green light that occurs due to refraction of light by the atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere bend light. Greater deflection on atmospheric conditions are not toodense layers.

Light with shorter wavelengths dibelokan more than longer wavelength light.

In Gerhard position when taking a photo, the green light from the Sun or the Moonwhose position is slightly higher than the orange and red light. In the right conditions,emission of green light can be seen at the top of the sun or moon when near the horizon.