Re: [time-nuts] Holiday Hydrogen Glow!

2020-12-25 Thread Bruce Griffiths
The Hydrogen plasma emission is dominated in the visible dominated by Halpha emission at 656.3 nm. Other Balmer series lines will also be present. Bruce > On 26 December 2020 at 09:12 Magnus Danielson wrote: > > > Dana, > > The glow is a side-effect of the plasma. The primary use in H-maser

Re: [time-nuts] Holiday Hydrogen Glow!

2020-12-25 Thread Magnus Danielson
Dana, The glow is a side-effect of the plasma. The primary use in H-maser is to split H2 gad into separate H atoms before sent through a state-separating hexapole magnet, known as A-field magnet. In Rubidium oscillators, you achieve the same plasma glow, but then it is the D-line emission which

Re: [time-nuts] Holiday Hydrogen Glow!

2020-12-25 Thread Dana Whitlow
It appears that the pink glow is reaching at least several inches from the discharge region. Am I correct in thinking that it stems from recombination of electrons and protons into neutral atome? And regardless of the precise mechanism, do any significant number of the glow-causing species make

[time-nuts] Holiday Hydrogen Glow!

2020-12-25 Thread cdelect
And here is an EFOS2 Maser glow. Happy holidays, and Merry Christmas! Corby___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.