We report quantum mechanical calculations of the X2 at the red wing of the C absorption band. The near equilibrium potential energy surface of the C1B2 state is deduced by fitting experimental vibrational frequencies using an exact quantum mechanical Hamiltonian. Low-lying vibrational eigenenergies on this double minimum potential agree well with experimental frequencies and the corresponding eigenstates show some interesting features. Both spectral positions and intensities of the X-1 using a Chebyshev based spectral method, which does not explicitly construct vibrational eigenfunctions in the X state. The emission spectra are in reasonably good agreement with experimental measurements. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.