Why is the sun in Sol yellow instead of white (or green)?

Phoenix13

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Our sun's light spectrum that it gives off is centered on Green; it gives off more green light than other wavelengths of light. The summation of light it gives off, is known as the Visible Light spectrum and our brains register/"see" it as white light (and our eyes perceive the primary colors as Red, Green, Blue).

The sun is white when looking at it from space and only like yellow to us on Earth because our atmosphere (and its many layers) excels at refracting/ scattering the short light wavelengths of violet, indigo, blue (and due to our eye's higher sensitivity to blue than violet, we see the sky as blue), and what's left is Red through Green... and we know that Red+Green=Yellow light.

Thus from space, and in space ships, our sun and all similar stars should be white (also why humans don't preceive green starsin the night sky).

TLDR: Our layered atmosphere makes the sun look yellow from earth's surface, but we see it as white from space. Why is it yellow in the game when viewed from the spaceship (esp when it actually gives off the most green light) instead of white? And for all similar stars.

As a "space sim" i would have hoped they would actually have gotten this one right.
 

WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
So, you take a black body and heat it. First it starts glowing "redish", then orange, yellow, and when you heat it more, it will glow more and more bluish. You might say the cyan is between yellow and blue, but you never see green stars. Now why is that?

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FX2K

FX2K
Fdev: There's not enough orange orange/brown on screen.. tint it all, make it all consistent.. everything.
Things are slowly changing, but that's also why all the bodies where beige :p
 

WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
There are no stars that the human eye can perceive as green. When you heat a black body, it emits a spectrum of light. That spectrum has a peak, but our perception of the stars, being a joint venture between the eyes and the brain, perceives the "green" stars as colorless "white".

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Colors are not a thing. It's a "qualia". Something your perception, being part of your consciousness, creates. An epiphenomena. Color is related to perception and wavelength or frequency is related to our physical perspective on reality. They tend to overlap, but not always. There is no monochrome light that "looks" like pure magenta. That is a color you can only create with a spectrum of light.

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WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
dm06 said:
right, such questions is a sign that it is actually everything is ok in the product.
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Far from. Next "update" will create a crapstorm the size of the galaxy. Litterally. Just you wait and see :alien:

Apart from that the OP has a point. Not in this case but in general. The reason why some of us play the game, is not to shot people in the face, but to fly spaceships and gaze at the wonder of the Universe. ED is showing some pretty examples of that. I recently found a tiny planetary nebula that was quite unique, but there is tons of stuff that need an upgrade. There is no lethal black holes, no globular clusters, no accretion discs and no novae to name few. Still, some of it is damn good, even though it's "arcade astronomy".
 

Phoenix13

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Lol. Yes interesting stuff. I'm just surprised it made its way into the game being held instead of white in the first place when it was touted as a "realistic representation" of the milky way and they've added stuff to the game after being discovered irl.

And yea, Obviously not suggesting they change it this second... more just wondering is it was a total miss in their part or something else.
 
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