I saw one the other night after it rained all day.
2007-07-31 07:58:41 · 16 answers · asked by SFC_Raptor 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Dust and particulate matter (including pollution) in the air.
2007-08-08 05:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by spamsux2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moon often appears to have a reddish tint when it is low in the sky. It is an effect of looking at it through more of the Earth's atmosphere. When the moon is high in the sky only the air above distorts it. But when it is low you are lookin across the horizon and a lot more of the Earth's atmosphere is between the viewer and the moon. Dust, pollution, and simply refraction of light through the air alters the color making it appear orange or red. It Also takes on a reddish color during a lunar eclipse, when the shadow of the Earth passes over the moon.
2007-07-31 08:09:36 · answer #2 · answered by James L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be an eclipse of the moon which gives it a glorious orangey-red or sometimes golden colour.
More likely it was low in the sky and given the reddish colour by the dirt in the Earth's atmosphere.
2007-07-31 08:02:20 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The viewing is plagued with the help of pollution in the air and with the help of atmospheric situations. besides, there is likewise a prism influence while finding with the aid of heavy atmosphere it particularly is crammed with moisture, you may actual get a rainbow result. this is not any longer the moon it particularly is replaced shade, this is the sky and clouds and particulate count from smog which you're viewing with the aid of. and, with the help of ways, the acceptable crimson and different shade sundown which you notice, those colors are led to with the help of a similar ingredient, while the solar is low on the horizon the easy gets scattered with the help of particulates in the air that are greater centred low so each and every thing turns amazing crimson, or violet or crimson.
2016-11-10 20:10:41 · answer #4 · answered by deller 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The color of the moon has to do with it's angle in the sky. When it's lower in the sky you have to look through more air in order to see it than you would if it were higher up in the sky. The atmosphere scatters the light from the moon and makes it appear red.
2007-07-31 08:04:46 · answer #5 · answered by Gwenilynd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moisture and dust contribute to the refractive effects of the atmosphere.
Low in the sky, not far from the horizon, the generally "white" light (or pale, pale yellow, if you prefer) is refracted and the blue-indigo end of the spectrum is "bent" down and away from your viewing position enough that you see more color from the image in the red-orange end of the spectrum.
The effect near the horizon is not nearly as pronounced when the air is less moist or polluted.
2007-07-31 10:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
During an eclipse, the sun's light is filtered around through the Earth's atmosphere, making the moon appear almost blood red. You can sort of see it during a partial ecclipse, but it's most prominent during a total eclipse.
2007-07-31 08:14:03 · answer #7 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you saw this before moonset or after moonrise, then it's the same thing that makes sunrises and sunsets red -- the atmosphere absorbs a lot of the blue.
the moon also appears red in a total lunar eclipse because the sun's light gets filtered through the earth's atmosphere before it reaches the moon.
2007-07-31 08:05:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same effects that give us the colorful skies. Mostly its polution.
2007-07-31 08:03:32 · answer #9 · answered by thomas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blood?! i have no idea!! i do know some people call it blood moon. red at night sailors delight.red in the mornin sailors take warnin.
2007-07-31 08:02:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋