(urth) Red Sun (branch from Geen Urth Redux)

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/12/2011 1:29 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:21 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>
>> I'd go for a reddish filter in morning and evening, and otherwise a fairly
>> normal spectrum, just not as intense except at noon. I don't know how
>> much weaker OUR sun would have to be to reveal the ghosts of stars
>> before the sun goes down or comes up.
>
> Nights will be darker, too. The full Lune will have less sunlight to
> reflect, and will reflect less of it (trees' leaves are there to
> absorb sunlight, after all) than the silvery-white Moon of Earth.

The average albedo of green plants in general and the moon are both in 
the 0.15-0.18 range.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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