What Color Are The Stars And How Hot Are They?

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  • Опубликовано: 8 дек 2016
  • In this video I teach about the color of the stars and how you can predict the temperature of stars quite accurately based on their color. The formula that I use in the video for converting RGB color values to temperature is from this paper found in this stack exchange link:
    dsp.stackexchange.com/question...
    I actually had to correct this formula slightly by applying Temp=400*CCT+5220 to it. Then it worked great! RGB values are actually quite difficult to predict temperatures from because there are only certain wavelengths that are produced by black body radiation. For example there is no green in the black body radiation color scale.
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Комментарии • 26

  • @zinzolin14
    @zinzolin14 3 года назад +11

    "Have you ever wondered what colour stars are?"
    ...
    Well now I do.

  • @daniellesweeney5625
    @daniellesweeney5625 7 лет назад +15

    I FRIGGIN' LOVE SPACE.

    • @readyplayeridk8571
      @readyplayeridk8571 3 года назад

      Yes! And when you go into it you get suffocated, burned, frozen and boiled!

    • @duck1047
      @duck1047 3 года назад

      OMG SAME ASTRONOMY 🔭

  • @codyrobinson1982
    @codyrobinson1982 2 года назад

    This deserves to be posted again. Ty for making the world fun

  • @Sam-ze9mo
    @Sam-ze9mo 7 лет назад +2

    This is really cool!

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs 7 лет назад +3

    wow way interesting! l loved it!

  • @jamesrobert7155
    @jamesrobert7155 4 года назад +1

    Is our vision skewed somewhat though looking through our atmosphere?

  • @yashsvidixit7169
    @yashsvidixit7169 2 года назад

    I think you missed about the white balance in the RGB equation.

  • @DeathDome_
    @DeathDome_ 8 месяцев назад

    yes

  • @deviscrimson3360
    @deviscrimson3360 7 лет назад +2

    But what will be the unit of temperature? will it be in kelvin(K)?

  • @lakshaystyles8985
    @lakshaystyles8985 3 года назад +2

    What should I comment so you'd reply?

  • @ratdude010
    @ratdude010 3 года назад

    Problem with this method is that it fails to take into account the Doppler effect from stars moving away from or toward the camera. Since the stars are visible with the naked eye, this is probably negligible. Not sure how they determine the Doppler effect, if the only thing they have is a stars color. You neither know the exact temperature or the stars speed.

    • @yashsvidixit7169
      @yashsvidixit7169 2 года назад

      They use spectroscopy. Different elements have different spectral lines. Doppler shift will shift all those lines. My matching the pattern with known spectral lines, one can deduce the red shift.

    • @ratdude010
      @ratdude010 2 года назад

      Yea, but how would they know the element itself? For example (and this is way oversimplified), if helium produces a red color normally, and is blue, couldn’t that simply be another element? There might be characteristics like the number of spectral lines present in certain elements; the whole thing is a bit confusing though.

    • @yashsvidixit7169
      @yashsvidixit7169 2 года назад

      @@ratdude010 let's talk about, say, Carbon. The spectral lines it produces looks like this.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line#/media/File:Carbon_spectrum_visible.png
      Now, if the light(with carbon's spectral lines) coming from a star experiences a Doppler shift, then all the wavelength will be multiplied by the same factor. So even in the shifted spectrum of received light, you will able to identify the carbon's spectral lines pattern. because the relative ratios of the wavelength of spectral lines will be preserved.
      Does that make more sense?

    • @ratdude010
      @ratdude010 2 года назад

      @@yashsvidixit7169 Thanks, I think so; all colors shift proportionately to one another though? IE. Red light shifts proportionately the same as blue light from the same body?

    • @yashsvidixit7169
      @yashsvidixit7169 2 года назад

      @@ratdude010 Yes,, for every wavelength, the multiplication factor is the same. So the shifts are all proportional. So, patterns are preserved.

  • @theincredibleauraaa133
    @theincredibleauraaa133 3 года назад

    Space is dope yall.

  • @heidix1513
    @heidix1513 3 года назад

    😊😊😍

  • @SephTheGeeks
    @SephTheGeeks 7 лет назад

    second

  • @Sam-ze9mo
    @Sam-ze9mo 7 лет назад +1

    first