A Rocket Observation of Continum Component at 6050A in Night Airglow

Abstract

An analysis of the night airglow near 6050A is made by using the result of two color photometry of the oxygen red line [01] 6300A and the night sky background 6050A. The emitting layer of the airglow which has the continum spectrum near the 6050A was observed in March and August 1966 by two rockets with photoelectric photometer, whose aim was to study the height profile of the airglow emissions. The emitting layer of the continum spectrum had distributed confined within 90 km to 140 km height of the ground, and it has peak intensity near the 115 km height. This fact coincides fairly well with the results obtained by other workers.