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SEVERAL observers have from time to time reported that the green auroral line (λ 5578) is commonly observable in the sky at night. I have often tried to see it myself with various instrumental arrangements, but without success. Slipher, however (Astrophys. Journ., 1919), succeeded in photographing the line on every clear night that he tried. He worked at the Lowell Observatory, California, as far south as lat. 35° N.
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RAYLEIGH The Common Occurrence of Aurora in the South of England. Nature 107, 137 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107137a0
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