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Old 23-March-2008, 01:49 AM
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A yellow Sun is an atmospheric colorful effect only. You won't see unfiltered Solar projections revealing a yellow Sun, unless the Sun is near the horizon. I hold to a white Sun, but I am hardly alone. If any of these folks have done a mosaic of the Solar system, then the colors might be right.

I strongly suspect, however, that no such near "true color" presentation of the Sun and planets has ever been done. I've got one hanging on my wall. It has no Sun, Venus is orange (from a false color surface image!), and Mars is brown. The more distant planets seem to be very accurate.

I do hope this draws some colorful attention to a colorful problem.
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