A cyanometer, an instrument for measuring the intensity of blue in the sky
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Let me just take a quick measurement….yep it’s super fucking blue today boys
It’s bothering me so much that none match the sky idk why
So what appens at 52?
So, 19?
So in theory, there could be one of these bad boys for every major hue.
*Buys erythrometer*
It’s definitely a 19 today
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“ the color you perceive with your eyes is just the particles falling apart in our atmosphere from the sun.
The sky is black…”
It’s gotta be pointing straight up.
It minimizes the gradient as one looks towards the horizon.
Ancient Greece is triggered.
What is with the bot comments on this post
What’s it for? Oil painting?
For a second i thought you were Xena, the warrior princess
Looks like an instrument made for a school project. Most measuring instruments don’t look like a bit of cardboard with pieces of paper stuck on.
“Ahh good morning, beautiful day today eh? I’d say about a 19”
18 19 ish
Well that doesn’t work because the sky has different shades of blue
I thought it was the portal from Stargate for a solid second
Is there any practical application for the measurement or is it just because? Given someone went to the trouble of making it, it seems likely there would be a use for it as well other than just amusement.
Ah yes it’s blue
Have you ever seen the sky reach all the way to the blackest part of the ring in the middle of the day, and besides events like eclipses and heavy storms?
My wife loves it when she makes small talk about the weather and I respond by spitting hard facts. I can’t wait to take this on our next hike.
“Ackchyually dear, according to my cyanometer, that sky is barely 8.5 degrees out of a possible 53. I would hardly call that a ‘blue’ sky!
That is interesting
What is the practical purpose of such a measurement
I’m in Scotland. The same instrument here would just be shares of grey.
Pronounced “meeter” or “ometter?”
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Let me just take a quick measurement….yep it’s super fucking blue today boys
Let me just take a quick measurement….yep it’s super fucking blue today boys