re temperature of the dark sky henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes does anyone have a reference something i can look up not just your own recollections i have a few of those myself on the temperature of the night sky as seen from space you ll find that in allen c w astrophysical quantities athlone press dover nh rd edition pp to the accuracy it can be calculated see specific references in allen about how it is calculated the temperature is degrees k lots of people have remarked on this temperature the first may have been in eddington s book internal constitution of stars ch reprinted where he gives the temperature of space as degrees the source of this temperature is the radiation of starlight my dim recollection is that the net effective temperature is substantially higher than that of the mbr once you figure in things like stars and the zodiacal light but i d like numbers to the accuracy of measurement it s the same temperature some of us think this may not be a coincidence tom tom van flandern washington dc metares well sf ca us meta research was founded to foster research into ideas not otherwise supported because they conflict with mainstream theories in astronomy
