The colors seen by visual astronomers? Mere illusion

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:56:55 +0000

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Here is the video of the Conference held together with my friend Lorenzo Comolli (http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/) about the possibility of seeing the colors of astronomical objects during visual observation at the telescope.

The title, deliberately provocative, says that the perception of colors is, in large part, due to an “optical illusion” caused by the physiology of the eye and the mechanism of vision.

Visual on L'Arciere Celeste

The colors seen by visual astronomers? Mere illusion