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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
At the risk of starting something here I respectfully disagree regarding how us solar imagers portray the colour of Sol. It is a yellow star. Click here for NASA page.
If Sol is supposed to be very similar to Rigel Kentaurus and its smaller twin then when I view that star through a telescope it appears as an orangey yellow colour. I have heard many people say it appears as this colour. While the colour of Antares is slightly more red and more orange. Antares's twin appears green to me, but most likely this is due to the orange fresnel rings mixing with the white light of the pup.
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Ditto. The colour of the Sun if we could see it without over-saturating our receptors would be very similar to Rigel Kentaurus and appears peach-yellow.
The black body trajectory curve does not quite get into the green wavelength and there should be no green stars:
http://casa.colorado.edu/%7Eajsh/colour/cietoppm.gif
( image from
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/Tspectrum.html )
Alex