temperature of the dark sky 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 note i am not talking about the temperature of the microwave background radiation there are more things in the sky than just the mbr what i m after is total blackbody temperature what a thermal radiator would see disregarding or shielding against the sun and nearby large warm objects 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 svr resembles a high speed collision henry spencer u of toronto zoology between svr and sunos dick dunn henry zoo toronto edu utzoo henry
