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No, LEDs are far wider than low pressure sodium, which is two about 0.1nm wide (thermal broadening, IIUC basically Doppler effect between the emitting particle and the surrounding world/containment vessel) lines 0.56nm apart. See https://lambdasys.com/uploads/LLE-2.pdf for a measured spectrum that's not as coarse as the one on en-wiki where both lines are blurred together.

LEDs are 10~50nm, untuned laser diodes 1~10nm. It is my understanding that it's easy to make a filter for the camera that very selectively targets this line pair, though it may entail mild optical complications as a sub-nm pass/reject bandwidth detunes from sideways angles, so lenses may need to collimate the light first before feeding the filter, and de-collimate again after.



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