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Kryptid — Know Your Stars
Published: 2006-11-29 21:52:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1834; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 84
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This is a schematic comparing several well-known stars. They are all drawn in proportion to each other, with their approximate diameters listed below their names. The colors are also fairy accurate. The colors were obtained from this website: [link]*The Sun is about a medium-sized star, and despite popular renditions of it being yellow, it's actually much closer to white.
*Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri are the 3 closest stars to the Sun, being slightly more than 4 light years away. Alpha Centauri A is similar to our own Sun, only slightly larger.
*Sirius A is the brightest star in our night sky. It has a much smaller partner star called Sirius B.
*Procyon A is also a very bright star in our night sky. It has a much smaller partner star called Procyon B.
*Tau Ceti has a large cloud of dust surrounding it, and has been studied for the presence of possible planets. Likewise, Beta Pictoris is also surrounded by dust and may have planets.
*Epsilon Eridani has at least one planet, which is a gas giant with about 1.5 times Jupiter's mass.
This was created with MS Paint.
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Because of our vision, yes the sun would appear white (as would any other stars, whatever the spectral type). If you are doing a graphic representation of the stars in their actual colors derived from spectral types, the sun should be a bright yellow color still.
Here, it doesn't look yellow, nor white, like you have suggested, but actually very unusually reddish.
Speaking of red, Proxima Centauri should be all in red, yet you have done it in orange.
Also, Procyon A is white in color, not bluish like you have depicted it.
The rest of the stars seem to be done alright, considering their respective spectral types.
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I think the coronas are throwing you off. The true color is meant to be in the disc of the stars themselves. I got them from a website (linked in the description) which is meant to estimate the true color of the stars (M-class stars are not truly red, but more orangish). I could probably do a better job with Paint.NET than with MS Paint with art like this now.
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Did you know that Epsilon Eridani is the future location of the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5?
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Nope. I didn't know that. I guess I've never watched Babylon 5.
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you know seeing these stuff makes me wish our Sun had a cooler name than just the Sun.
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Did you do this for any specific reason, or did you just feel like drawing accurate pictures of stars? Just curious is all.
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Pretty much a matter of feeling like it. I like to compare things, and stars are cool, so put them together and you get this. I plan on doing some more.
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