• Question: What is your favourite colour

    Asked by 573spdm38 to Tim, Stephen, Sammie, Rachel, Mark, Lisa on 7 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Stephen Wilkins

      Stephen Wilkins answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Blue. More specifically the dark blue of the sky in the middle of twilight (after the Sun has set but before its fully night.

    • Photo: Sammie Buzzard

      Sammie Buzzard answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      I’m a Barnet FC supporter so maybe orange although I wouldn’t want to paint my walls that colour!

    • Photo: Tim Duckenfield

      Tim Duckenfield answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      I’m going to get all fancy with my answer – my favourite colour is “171 angstrom”! This isn’t a colour that our eyes can see, but our telescopes can. Imagine a Dulux colour chart with the different colours ordered red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet – then my colour is after violet! We call it “extreme ultra-violet”, and most of the movies I make of the Sun are using telescopes looking at this colour. The Sun looks boring in visible light (the colours we can see), but so much more interesting in 171 angstrom. Of course to actually see it, we pretend this colour is like an orangey-yellow.

      On my profile page there is a picture that explains the different colours we can see the Sun in. If you want to check out these colours yourself, have a look at the Sun right now at https://www.helioviewer.org/ and pick “171” on the left hand menu. It’s worth it!

    • Photo: Lisa Baddeley

      Lisa Baddeley answered on 13 Mar 2018:

      Purple. Not sure why, just love the colour. 🙂

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