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Re:Color blindness by wglass on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:47AM (#24672777)
Is it obvious to everyone else? Do colored dots stand out in the sky? Or is it a subtle thing?
Re:Color blindness by MayeulC on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:10PM (#24672930)
To me (not colour blind), they are not really coloured. Some are slightly more yellow or blue, but that's about it.

They do, however, twinkle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkling

And while twinkling, I catch glimpses of red, yellow, blue or others. Of course, this is very subjective and that wikipedia page doesn't mention colour changing at all.

Re:Color blindness by Out_of_Characte on Saturday October 03, 2020 @01:01PM (#24673267)
It probaly has to do with the low visibility of stars in general. Especially mayor european cities have so much light pollution that people, myself included, just see a few white dots at the night sky varying in brightness and ever so slightly in color if you pay attention.
Re:Color blindness by KineticLensman on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:57PM (#24673240)
It is subtle and to the naked eye, at a quick glance, the stars in the night sky are all little white dots.

Not a mass of little coloured dots.