It never occured to me before, but yesterday I got some thoughts about lightning for a spacesim, and I just cant stop thinking about a particular issue.
Aslong as I remember I recognised the sun as yellow, be it watched from earth or space, be it in schoolbooks, games or movies. I know it would totally struck me if the Sun wouldnt be illustrated as Yellow Circle.
Yet if you consider that the Moon is appearing white, that only leaves 2 possible conclusions:
1) The moon is greyish and the light emmitted from the sun is white (From what I know [or think to remember] the light-spectrum of the sun effectively blends into a white colour)
2) the light emmitted from the sun is yellow and the moon absorbs yellow more than other colours (having some sort of violet as 'basecolour') - I dont think so
I mean I could imagine the air filtering and scattering the light could result into the sun appearing yellow when watched from earth, but from Space the Sun should always be white !
Am I missing something?
Aslong as I remember I recognised the sun as yellow, be it watched from earth or space, be it in schoolbooks, games or movies. I know it would totally struck me if the Sun wouldnt be illustrated as Yellow Circle.
Yet if you consider that the Moon is appearing white, that only leaves 2 possible conclusions:
1) The moon is greyish and the light emmitted from the sun is white (From what I know [or think to remember] the light-spectrum of the sun effectively blends into a white colour)
2) the light emmitted from the sun is yellow and the moon absorbs yellow more than other colours (having some sort of violet as 'basecolour') - I dont think so
I mean I could imagine the air filtering and scattering the light could result into the sun appearing yellow when watched from earth, but from Space the Sun should always be white !
Am I missing something?