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Originally Posted by mental4astro
"Aqua" is a pale blue-green colour. Aqua is one way to describe the colouration that is seen. Colour description is totally a subjective one. Me, I refrain from using the name 'aqua', and describe it a bluish-green, but that is me. Like I said, totally subjective. But as you allude to, colours are certainly not vivid, well, unless you have a 40" scope... 
To make matters worse, 1/3 of all males are colour blind to some degree, from bugger all to nearly no colour rendition at all. Females are few who experience any degree of colour blindness. |
Thanks, yes people may well not know what is meant by Aqua. I often refer to it as the "bluey traffic light green" to others. That aqua or blue green colour does become a tad more obvious at times with a nebula filter on small bright planetarys (unless the filter is adjusting the colour?).
The down side to being colour blind is that we can't fly planes or figure out resistor values or sometimes pocket the brown ball instead of the red ball with some snooker ball sets. The upside is that like Schiaparelli, we actually see what's on Mars, rather than see lots of things that aren't there that normal visioned people saw on Mars. And apparently, during WW11, colour blind Aussies in airplanes had no difficulty spotting Japanese ground camouflage.
The strange thing is that at times, I've shown some people say the Orion nebula through my C8, and they have remarked at the amazing green colours - and all I see is grey.
Cheers,
Renato