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Old 17-06-2015, 10:25 AM
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You can represent visible star colours pretty accurately, but most choose to accentuate the saturation a bit in imaging - they are actually only moderately colourful.

This is the best site I have come across on actual star colours. http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor/

as you say Greg, local atmospheric and galactic dust effects can alter these - for example, it is not unusual for stars to appear more red looking than they should be and to have bluish scatter halos.

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