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What I found interesting is the sun is actually white in this camera feed instead of the usual yellow we associated with it.
by Plasmoid 3y ago
What I found interesting is the sun is actually white in this camera feed instead of the usual yellow we associated with it.
- SushiHippie 3y agoYeah, the sun is actually white! It's a big star, after all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Sunlight_and_neutrinos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Sunlight_and_neutrinos > The Sun emits light across the visible spectrum, so its color is white, [...], when viewed from space or when the Sun is high in the sky. > When the Sun is very low in the sky, atmospheric scattering renders the Sun yellow, red, orange, or magenta, and in rare occasions even green or blue. > Despite its typical whiteness [...], some cultures mentally picture the Sun as yellow and some even red; the reasons for this are cultural and exact ones are the subject of debate.
- bboygravity 3y agoThat last sentence about the color of the sun being cultural is weird to me. The sun simply looks very different depending on where you are on earth. Example (from experience/memory): the sun looks very orange/red during a Norwegian winter sunrise for like an hour or so. Around the equator the sun is up and white within minutes.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoIt's a GoPro doing automatic white balance.