So what colour is Uranus really? |
So what colour is Uranus really? |
Oct 26 2006, 01:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Berlin Member No.: 744 |
Photos from the Voyager era show it to be on the border of blue and green, particularly greenish in some of them. On the other hand, amateur astronomers report from their backyards a definite "blue blob". So what colour would Uranus appear to human eye? Was the greenish tint made up as a distinction from Neptune? Or was it some flaw in image processing?
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Oct 26 2006, 01:28 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I've seen it through a 16" scope, and it was a small bluey-green ball - looking at the amateur obs of it, this isn't too far from how I remember it
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m213/me...ectspelling.png But there is a whole variety from bright bright blue to near a turq-green in the images I've seen. Doug |
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