PUBLISHED: 6 November 2023 at 4:00
Social media rumors about seeing the northern lights over a mountaintop in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi have been refuted by the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand( Narit ).
It claims that rather than the renowned aurora borealis, the light in the sky is a reflection from jellyfish fishing vessels.
The images of brilliant green light in the sky above the park are” certainly not the northern lighting ,” according to Matipon Tangmatitham, an astronomer at Narit, in a Facebook post.
He claimed that Thailand cannot see the northern signals because its parallel is too far from the magnetic poles of the earth.
Additionally, because northern lights along the Arctic and Antarctic are typically open, observers can also make out stars in the night sky. However, he wrote,” The pictures taken at the mountain in Kaeng Krachan National Park show an opaque green surface that blocks the stars.”
He claimed that day, there were tiers of clouds obscuring the stars. However, it is difficult for the northern lights to look beneath cloud layers because they typically appear hundreds of kilometers above cloud height.
He speculated that the natural light may have originated from human activity or from the bright green lights used by jellyfish fishing boats. Because fish can see the wavelength of natural light at night, fishermen in this region of the world typically use it to catch them. The Gulf of Thailand is home to nations that use natural lighting to tuna jellyfish. He claimed that because of how bright the lighting is, astronauts from area stations have previously reported seeing enigmatic natural lights in the Gulf of Thailand.
The explanation came after a Facebook post from Kaeng Krachan National Park claiming that on November 3, northern lights had appeared at the summit of Khao Phanoen Thung hills to welcome visitors. The article quickly went viral.
Visitors to the area, according to garden chief Mongkol Chaipakdee, have previously seen the same incident. On November 2, 2021, and January 1, 2022, photography had taken pictures of the natural lighting atop Khao Phanoen Thung.
He speculated that the dispersion that occurs in Thailand during the change from the rainy season to the winter may be the source of the natural light. When light from lower ground strikes the mountain’s top layers of cloud, it may stretch.