Mercury’s Sodium tail
Taken by Dr. Sebastian Voltmer on May 2, 2022 @
La Palma, Canary Islands
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Date Taken: 2022:05:03 04:56:33
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Mercury’s tail taken through an Astro-Physics 175 Starfire refractor telescope at the ATHOS Centro Astronómico.
For the tail I used a filter tuned to the orange-yellow glow of sodium. The brightness of the tail reached its maximal brightness because of the Doppler shift (Sodium D-lines)! That’s a very interesting fact.
Insert captured through the C14 of the ATHOS observatory on La Palma.
Photographer's website:
https://www.voltmer.photo
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