Green Flash on the Red Planet
Taken by Peter Rosén on June 27, 2016 @
Central Stockholm, Sweden
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This opposition of Mars has not been very favorable for us living far up in the north.
Tonight when I started observing shortly before midnight, the planet was only 3° above the horizon and the turbulence was extreme.
I used a C9.25 with a 2.5x Powermate and an ADC (atmospheric Dispersion Corrector) to align the colors and tried nevertheless to photograph Mars. Suddenly I saw the upper part getting distorted and turning green.
It looked just as a green flash on the Sun, a phenomenon I have observed and photographed on some occasions, but this was the first time I caught a green flash on the red planet.
The second picture was shot on the 11th of June at an altitude of 8° above the horizon.
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