The O2 atmospheric 0-0 band and related emissions at night from Spacelab 1

A comparison of theoretically determined and measured O2 atmospheric (0-0) band intensities is presented. In view of suggestions that the O2 atmospheric emission and the atomic oxygen O(1S) emission both arise from the same intermediate state of O2, the measured 5577 A emission is also compared with theory; a similar comparison is made for the Herzberg bands of O2. It is concluded that the theories explaining these emissions do not yet provide a consistent picture.