Re: (meteorobs) The color of the night sky

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• From: "Malcolm J. Currie" <mjc@jach.hawaiidot edu>
• Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:29:30 -1000 (HST)
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Jure A >Question: what is the color of the night sky? To me it usually

At a dark site the B-V colour is about 0.7, i.e. similar or slightly
redder than the sun.  Put another way the sky is about twice as faint in
the blue (B) as it is in the green (V=visual) part of the spectrum.

Malcolm

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