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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it is viewed from far and on a high altitude, would the light appear red shifted?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The answer is almost certainly no but I'm curious why you think this might be the case

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

1000024983 I was reading on this aurora phenomenon and saw that in some parts of Himalayas, aurora was seen red.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a cool photo, thanks for sharing.

For more context why this wouldn't be related to redshift, redshift is a concept in physics for light that's analogous to the Doppler shift for sound. The typical example of Doppler shift is the EEEEE-OO-UUUUUM sound a car makes when moving fast past you. When the car is speeding away from you, the sound pitch is noticeably lower

Similarly, when a light emitter moves away from you at extremely fast speeds (i.e. hundreds of millions of meters or yards per second), the light you see reaching you will be shifted down in frequency, towards red in visible light. This can happen in other more complicated relativistic situations too but they are less easy to explain and also not applicable here

I don't know why the people in the photo see this beautiful red aurora but redshift is almost certainly not a related concept here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Oh I think I got things confused there. I was referring to the phenomenon where the sky looks red-pinkish on evenings because the Rayleigh scattering.