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Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).
Yup. > "The color of a star, as determined by the most intense frequency of the visible light, depends on the temperature of the star's outer layers, including its photosphere." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#Radiation
Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).
Is it obvious to everyone else? Do colored dots stand out in the sky? Or is it a subtle thing?
They do, however, twinkle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkling
And while twinkling, I catch glimpses of red, yellow, blue or others. Of course, this is very subjective and that wikipedia page doesn't mention colour changing at all.
Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).
I am not color blind and I've never noticed star colors. They just look white or yellow to me. It must be very subtle.
Antares, for example, is one I can consistently see as red.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. > "The color of a star, as determined by the most intense frequency of the visible light, depends on the temperature of the star's outer layers, including its photosphere." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#Radiation
The poster's question should be interpreted as: can the color of the stars be distinguished with the naked eye?
I didn't know he was color blind. I can't help but connect this to his famous disdain for syntax highlighting and colored text: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...
Nice article. Small correction, humans are not old world monkeys (or any kind of monkey). We are apes.
* First, if you have the option of using one or the other, do so. Like, you can use red, blue, yellow, purple, and black for lines on a graph before you even need to find an additional color like green.
* Second, highly saturated ("computer" red/green) are easy to distinguish (for me, anyway, and it sounds like the author as well). So they're preferable to less saturated versions of red and green, if you need to use both.
For me, the most difficult reds and greens to distinguish are in the pastel range.
* Additionally, if you're designing UI for a program (game or whatever) with colorblindness options, PLEASE do not label the options with the medical names only ("deuteranopia", "protanopia", "tritanopia"). I don't know what the latin word for the medical condition of red-green colorblind is, I just know I have the relatively common kind of red-green colorblindness. I'd guess most people who aren't doctors are in a similar boat. Labels that include the color-distinction difficulty and relative commonality would be most useful to me, e.g., "red-green (MOST COMMON — deuteranopia)", "red-green (LESS COMMON — protanopia)", and "blue-yellow (EXTREMELY RARE — tritanopia)".
I didn't know he was color blind. I can't help but connect this to his famous disdain for syntax highlighting and colored text: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...
Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).