While camping, I noticed that if you look long enough at almost any star, you start seeing some tiny, subtle colors in that star. Even crazier, they sometimes flicker between more colors. In my case orange, blue and something like cyan.

Besides constellations, what else could you observe regarding starts, with the naked eye?

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I don’t quite get why they say ‘the Sun’s visible output peaks in the green’. And immediately follow that up with a diagram where the peak is somewhere between blue and cyan… Or are my eyes off?

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      1 year ago

      What they’re really saying is that the dominant wavelength our sun emits is around 500 nm. Which by definition is green light. Astronomers also call everything heavier than helium a metal, which isn’t true but that’s how they work.

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        1 year ago

        I hope I don’t sound too argumentative, because I really don’t actually care too much about the exact color of sunlight. But I think this is a diagram from earth’s perspective. It has these dents in the longer wavelengths where certain frequencies get absorbed by elements it traveled through, and the UV is filtered out. Both indicators it went through the atmosphere.