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Old 28-11-2012, 11:45 AM
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Colin, it's the star's surface temperature that determines the colour. The black body relationship gives the peak of the intensity curve:

Wavelength ( micrometers) = 2897 / Temperature (K)

CSIRO outreach has this explanation.
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