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Old 04-07-2010, 08:39 PM
MuntiNZ (Daz)
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Whats that orange glow?

Hey guys a mate of mine in NZ took some piccies from what he reckoned was a dark sky site and made a vid from them and there was this orange glow in the sky like street lights reflecting off cloud or something.
So I took the p--- out of him coz it obviously wasnt a dark site but he swears there was no lights any where.
Now I seen some vids like his ( which are time lapsed frames joined up ) from Paranal in Chile and another site there from at 4,300m! high and they have the glow to!
www.astrosurf.com/sguisard
So what is the orange colour glow? What causes that?
Its usually down near the horizon and up to may be 30-40 deg.
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