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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Here's something I've been pondering for some time (meaning of life can wait a bit longer...  ). Long exposure photos, and even with just highly sensitive CCD's we can see colour in nebulae. Even with a big dob we can see pink and blue coming of M42. But, if we were much closer to a bright nebula like M42, would our eyes be able to detect any colour coming off it? Just our naked, unassisted eyes. Colour or not?
Mental. |
You would see the exact same colours that you see in your telescope.
Nearly all TV shows and movies showing space ships going past very colourful nebula are incorrect. The only exception I remember was the TV series Lost In Space, which used black and white photos of nebula and galaxies as space background in the show.
Regards,
Renato