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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Nov 11 2006, 09:57 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-March 06 Member No.: 722 |
In almost all of the amateur images I've seen of both planets (such as those on the ALPO site), Uranus is definitely more greenish than Neptune, the latter of which is usually an out-and-out blue.
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Dec 5 2006, 06:44 PM
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Slightly off topic...I was inspired by HST's near IR image of Uranus to create this shallow glazed ceramic bowl. Airbag |
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