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Re: "Flowery" Color Terms for Double Star Descriptions new [Re: nytecam]
      #5524422 - 11/17/12 01:59 PM
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Ah, but I'm a telescoper, not a spectroscoper, so for me the color terms are sensical and sensible. Should I leave telescoping in favor of spectroscoping, I will be sure to abandon color adjectives.

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Re: "Flowery" Color Terms for Double Star Descriptions new [Re: nytecam]
      #5525276 - 11/17/12 11:20 PM
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Anyway, when you've done a bit of spectroscopy, all these colour description seem nonsence


Newton took the spectrum, curved it into a color wheel, and gave us endless possiblities. It's not eggplant, it's aubergine.

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Re: "Flowery" Color Terms for Double Star Descriptions new [Re: rookie]
      #5525286 - 11/17/12 11:31 PM
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Well, in the spectrum, there is no paint can shaker mixing flowery colors, say blue-white with near infra red. But, that doesn't mean we can use them visually. If it looks aubergine, well it looks aubergine. Now, find it's frequency.

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Re: "Flowery" Color Terms for Double Star Descriptions new [Re: Asbytec]
      #5525526 - 11/18/12 05:03 AM
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In due consideration of the rather shady nuances of this thread , I suppose I would not be stretching the lexiconical spectrum too far by offering an updated English interpretation of Struve's color description of Zeta B Orionis - "olivaceasubrubicunda" - as an "embarrassed aperture envy" hue.

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Re: "Flowery" Color Terms for Double Star Descriptions new [Re: VanJan]
      #5526611 - 11/18/12 06:47 PM
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