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Originally Posted by George
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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You're making venerachromological comments now! Or maybe that should be cytherochromological. I had the impression that the orange hue was an average of more-or-less true color versions of the Venera surface images, driven almost completely by what spectral slices of sunlight manage to survive the many ricochets through the cloud decks. That would be a defensible surface color, albeit based on limited data and not actually representative of the surface rock if you depict the planet stripped of clouds.