[Sirius Lee]

I have a weird question: Growing up twenty years ago, did you remember the sun appearing yellow in the sky? Does it look yellow now, or does it look white to you?

[laplata]

I have a weird question: Growing up twenty years ago, did you remember the sun appearing yellow in the sky? Does it look yellow now, or does it look white to you?

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White.

[dragnet2]

Decades ago the sun probably appears more yellow to you due to the atmosphere and possibly poli9tuion depending on where you were.

But the sun is actually white.

BTW, I took this shot of the sun last year during the planet Venus transit. This was obtained when Venus near maximum transit, taken on 6/5/2012. I used Sun filters in the optical chain which cased the yellowing effect.

However, once the filters are removed, the sun is basically white.

[muawiyah]

NOTE: The 'yellow' cast of the Sun is going to be a combination of what your rods and cones see ~ right now I see the Sun as yellow, more or less, with my left eye, but white, more or less, with my right eye.

Although I"ve never had good 'blue' vision at all ~ a shortage of blue receptors I suppose, as long as I had my rods intact they made up for most of the color deficiency (the rods overlap the blue cones reception frequencies).

After some serious eye surgery I lost a great deal of my rods in my right eye. That means I no longer have blue vision in much of my right eye, and that means I can't see yellow either!

What you saw 20 years ago may well not have anything to with how you see it today. Add in cataracts, scarification, retinal repairs, and about 753298 different possibilities, and it's amazing we can see anything at all!

[dragnet2]

poli9tuion=pollution.

[Black Agnes]

Definitely looks ‘off’ in color visually compared to the summers of 1990 and 1991. Less noticeable difference last summer though than the summer of ‘09.

[dragnet2]

This is another shot I took of the same Venus transit, but without the colored sun filter in the optical chain. It's still not the actual white because of the sun filter itself but resembles that actual color more closely.

BTW, looking closely you can see the "Teardrop" effect of Venus as it initially started it's transition. It's an optical illusion.

[Rio]

They told me not to look at the sun!

[Nowhere Man]

I have a weird question: Growing up twenty years ago, did you remember the sun appearing yellow in the sky? Does it look yellow now, or does it look white to you?

It seem white to me, different from the 1970's and 1980's. Weird. I'm also picking up less skip on my police scanner in the 30 to 50 Mc range.

[Freeport]

Being born in the early 1960’s I can say it looks the same.

[listenhillary]

Might have been the host over the sun.

You had to have been there to get this.

[Elsie]

Move aWAY from that smoggy neighborhood of yours!

[mbarker12474]

I have a weird question: Growing up twenty years ago, did you remember the sun appearing yellow in the sky? Does it look yellow now, or does it look white to you?

The sun looks the same to me.

Furthermore, I went to Virginia Beach 40 years ago and 30 years ago and 20 years ago and last year. The ocean and the hotels and the beach have remained in exactly the same location during all these visits.

I remember it being very hot at the beach when I was a child many years ago. I remember it being very hot at the beach when I was there last year. No discernable difference.