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, 08:44 PM
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Oct 26 2006, 11:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 21-April 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 347 |
Well, to me visually it looks the same color as the light blue on these pages, for example on the second row background, were you have "Front Page" "Forum Guidelines", etc.
This on a 8'' telescope, so not much light to detect subtle colors, but certainly not much saturated light blue. Neptune is close to the background on the page footer, where you have the time. This to me of course, but we are talking about visual appearance. -------------------- _______________________
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