For those over 30: Remember when the sun use to cast a yellow light and now its bright white?

When you wake up and stare at the sun for near 60 years...guess what!!

Probably true for someone in their 80s.
Dude is only 60.
If anything his eyes are probably better than in
his 20's.

in NYC, when the sun is directly above you in a wide open space, the effect is like a giant xenon floodlight. it's almost disorienting...AND i'm seeing all these people with umbrellas now to shield themselves from the glare, whereas in the past it was only chinese people.

as a kid i KNOW it was yellow because i made a point of looking directly into the darned thing, for a second or so. when i did, two thoughts would fill my head: "bright" and "yellow". and yes the sky used to be deep blue, not pale blue with white haze mixed in.

This topic still going?
I'm the 60 year old and I'm very aware of colour, being an artist and ex jeweller.
Like a musician has attuned hearing, I see things that tend not be registered by many people.
The sun is absolutely, definitely a lot whiter and brighter under the same conditions and same colour sky.

The sun was always yellow untill the early 90's when it changed to a brassy white color. Years ago there was a thread on here about having to change the old color films so they would show colors corectly with the new lighting. If you look it up white is the next color up after yellow in the heat scale for stars.

Was thinking this exact thing this morning.. I remember distinctly as a kid being able to stare directly at the mid day sun for a few seconds at a time.. Today, cant even look in the general direction of it... I also distinctly remember drawing landscapes for art projects in grade school, as many of us did, with a YELLOW sun in the corner of the picture.. Very interesting..
In the original Christofer Reeve Superman movie, it is explained that Superman gains his powers by the light of the "Earth's YELLOW sun." Look at the damn thing.. WHITE hot man.. WHITE

Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

You once could look at the sun indeed.

It is no longer [possible without burning your eyes out. I think it has more to do with the atmosphere changing and not the color of the sun.


It is much different than it was 20- 30 years ago. No doubt.

Aint seen nothing yet.

Blue Skies

The reason the sky is blue is described by a phenomenon called Rayleigh Scattering. In our atmosphere there are molecules of size near the wavelength of visible light. Due to their small size they tend to disperse white light into its colours. It so happens that blue light is dispersed the most.

Apart from these molecules, there are innumerable number of dust particles in the atmosphere. So, after the first dispersion, blue light continues to be reflected off each dust particle until it reaches our eyes. With every reflection blue light loses intensity, which is why the sky appears light-blue.

When it rains, the raindrops, as they fall, imbibe the dust particles present in the atmosphere. Thus, the number of dust particles are significantly reduced. Hence, the number of subsequent reflections are greatly reduced. Thus, bluer skies.

As global air pollution has increased, our skies have gone from a once-remembered rich, deep blue to a greyish light-blue. This same phenomenon may also account for the changes to the appearance to our Sun.

In the future, when exotic clean energy technologies are universally adopted, our skies will be as deep a blue as our faintest of childhood memories can recall.

Or we can go red on black.

Chemtrails don't exist. Keep repeating to yourself Chemtrails don't exist.

I was born in the eighties and I can recall a difference. It could be atmospheric, it could be the sun and I guess it could be human consciousness. It seems to be the consensus, regardless.

..if it's the sun I hope that doesn't turn out to be a bad thing...

I'm only 22 and never post on this site but yes I have always thought we live in a more "futuristic" beam than what I remember from growing up.

I'm only 22 and never post on this site but yes I have always thought we live in a more "futuristic" beam than what I remember from growing up.

Born in 85 and have also made such observations but, I thought it may have just been my perception. I work outside all summer and within the past two summers I have noticed a major change in the sun and/or atmosphere (maybe just because I'm much more observant...perception?). Any who it reminds me of the dreams I have had since a child, of everyone burning (also shared with a dear friend) and the supposed "Kill Shot".
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Yep.

I also remeber as a kid being out in the sun all day before even a hint of a sunburn started showing up.

These days its like..20 minutes..

I also remeber a paper left on the lawn would take almost 10 days in the sun to go yellw..these days...its yellow in one day.

I also remeber the sunscreens used to be 5+..and they were plenty..

Then in 1998 they brought in 15+...then in 2010 they made it 30+ and its STILL only good for two hours in the sun.

But its global warning RIGHT??..our cars have made the sun 10 time more intense and turned it from a gentle yellow to a feirce bright white you can even glance in the general direction of without burning your eyes out.

Yeah, you're right, the sun must be changing sequence, that's what you're getting at, right? Nevermind that process occurs gradually over millions of years, to the point where the amount of change in your entire lifetime would be in-perceivable. How much time do you think we have, Einstein? Months, a year?

Also, have you noticed that time seems to be speeding up, and kids seem to have less morals?

Because these are all things that EVERY HUMAN BEING THINKS IS HAPPENING AS THEY GET OLDER.

I guarantee you ten thousand years from now some dipshit in a silver jumpsuit will be posting 'I think the sun is getting whiter' on Atheist-Like Poductions on the Astral Thoughtnet and thinking he's on to something.

The sun IS changing sequance.

How do you explain its change of colour..PLUS they keep upping the spf factor of sunscreens..PLUS the fact a paper takes only a day in the sun to go yellow when 30 years ago it took 10 or more days?

But you are just an ignorant shill.

If you knew anything about our sun you would KNOW it is a VARIABLE SEQUANCE star.

It HAS fluctuated before..as recently as 400 years ago..it went really DIM..really fast.

Not its its in a fast UPswing.

But..you are just an ignorant shill.

So I wont waste anymore time talking to stupid canadians.

I have definitely noticed a change from a bright yellow to an even brighter white in my 17 years of life. It does seem that most other people dont perceive things as keenly as me many times.

Matthew 17:2
There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.

stare at the sun for a few minutes around mid day, don't wear sunglasses they'll reduce your perspective. come back and post about your discoveries.

Okay, it's funny I came across this thread.

I went to work today at about 11 AM. I remember while I was driving, I couldn't look towards the sun as it was too bright, not even staring directly at it, not even a glimpse. Walking to my office building, I felt like I HAD to put on my sunglasses. The weird thing is that it was a cloudy - dusty day. The skies were pale grey.

I've been involved with photography since the early 70s. Calibrating the machines and all sorts, as well as taking photos.

Nothing has changed. The colour temp of the Sun is the same. The normal exposure for a daylight shot has not gotten faster, as would have to happen. It is the same.

For those who imagine that it has gotten whiter (hotter, brighter), tell me how many degrees Kelvin it has changed by and what is the new exposure time for daylight shots with 400ISO (for example). I mean, just give me a rough estimate - even.

Most of you wouldn't even have a clue what that means, let alone answer it..

1. Don't you mean, how do I explain YOUR PERCEPTION of the sun changing it's color? Because it looks the same as it always did to me. When you were a kid everyone drew yellow suns for the same reason they draw green ground, a blue sky, and a red house...because they're working with a box of wax sticks in primary colors, and they lack blending skills. Go into an elementary school and take a look at the pictures (that is if you're allowed within 50 yards of one) and you'll notice the kids are still drawing yellow suns.

2. This paper you are yellowing...unless you are using a perfectly preserved 30 year old piece of paper to perform this test, it isn't scientifically sound. Different methods of treatment, the chemical content of the paper will affect how fast it yellows. I don't know if you've noticed, but the modern corporate motto is 'dilute the product with cheaper filler as much as possible to squeeze every last buck out of it'. Your paper is yellowing faster for the same reason my Sour Cream and Onion chips don't taste as good as when I was a kid, and the same reason McDonalds smells more like a Pfizer lab than a restaurant. You still buy it when they skimp, so why wouldn't they?

3. During the Maunder minimum the sun didn't go 'dim'. There was simply a reduction in sunspots. The overall luminosity would not have been affected. If the sun has an 'upswing' in the way you're comparing it to the minimum, we will simply have an increase in active sunspots (which we don't).

you're completely clueless about black-body radiation. you can not state that the colour temperature of the sun hasn't changed.

I tend to agree

But my memory isn't good enough to have an opinion

Can I really remember the sun's color when u was a kid? Not eealkt