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Which color is sun light after the atmosphere?

 
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Jul 18, 2014 16:17 |  #1

Does somebody know which color is sunlight after passing the sky in a middle of a day without clouds? And which color is percepted by mind? For example I know that if I will place a white cube under the sky, the shadow will have a slight blue tint as the sky is shining with the blue light. But what for the lighten side of the cube? It seems that it can be from warm yellowish to white and even blue, depending on amount of clouds and height of sun. But can it be blue with a clean sky (for example, only in some places on the earth)? Or only percepted as warm tinted white side?




  
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Jul 20, 2014 20:06 |  #2

Color is defined by temperature. The color temperature of the sun on earth is about 5,800K which means it's called a cool temperature, slightly blue/white. The higher the temperature the color is called cooler and the lower the temperature (red/orange) the color is called warmer (I know it doesn't make sense) but when something is red/orange people see that as warm. The color temperature of the sun before passing through our atmosphere is about 5,900K

The blue color of the sky is caused by scattering of the sunlight from the atmosphere, which tends to scatter blue light more than red light.

The color you see an object on earth is the color it reflects.


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Jul 23, 2014 05:23 as a reply to  @ DanThoman's post |  #3

Thank you a lot for the answer, Dan. Am I right that 5800 temperature includes the reflected light from the sky? I mean that a white sheet on the sunlight will have slight blue-white color (if the sun is not at the horizon, which changes its temparature and there are no clouds, which infuence the color too), yes?




  
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