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So far as I have been able to learn, little or nothing is known about the colour of the night sky. The light is too faint for ordinary visual discrimination of colour, which disappears with diminishing intensity of illumination much before the light itself ceases to be perceptible.
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RAYLEIGH Colour of the Night Sky. Nature 106, 8 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106008a0
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