Someone whos good with science?

[Pipe Dreams]

What does an orange moon mean?

[Pipe Dreams]

Looked orange to me tonight.

[Pipe Dreams]

Aw. Thanks man. Im gonna go outside, look at the sky, and get baked.

[kingjustin]

it's called either a harvest moon ( time to bring in the crops) or...something else. I forgot. But it has to do with the rotational axis of the earth and its alignment with the sun.

[Pipe Dreams]

The moon went away:wtf:

Guess Im gettin baked inside.

Peace guys :D

[Coelho]

Well... thought its full moon, (and the lunar eclipses happen only when its full moon), it seems it was not one, or, at least, not a documented/predicted one. But as the eclipses can be predicted centuries before they happen, the chance of a unpredicted eclipse is almost null.
Which time of the day the moon seemed orange? It was when the moon was rising or setting? If so, the effect is simply the dispersion of the colors due the atmosphere, the same effect that makes the sunset looks orange/red.

[josh g]

Im pretty sure that wasnt any kind of eclipse. Yeah it was just the way the light hit the atmosphere depending on where you are.
Sometimes its totally pink here! :thumbsup:

[kingjustin]

Yay for science!

[LIP]

Last time i saw any colour in the sky it was a red star - turned out it was mars.

[Ubalubus]

the moon appears red/orange at "moon rise" because the light from the moon must travel through alot more atmosphere when it first rises than it does shortly afterwards. The molecules that make up the atmosphere, including dust and pollution, scatter the the blues and greens leaving the reds and oranges to pass through.

Someone mentioned that a lunar eclipse can happen only when the moon is full - that is correct! And they can (and are) be predicted ahead of time and don't happen randomly. The moon is slowly moving away from the earth - if forget the amount but its a couple/few inches a year. at some point a million or so years from now there will be no more eclipses.

Another interesting bit of info about the moon - if you've ever noticed, when the moon is a crescent either right before sunrise or right after sunset, you can faintly see the remainder of the moon. That's actually caused by "earthshine" - sunlight reflecting off of the earth and faintly illuminating that part of the moon :)

Its all good stuff...

[Ubalubus]

Last time i saw any colour in the sky it was a red star - turned out it was mars.

You can catch Mars now right before sunrise - it'll be low in the east but won't be all that bright because its on the other side of the sun as compared to earth - that is, its farthest away. Mars will start to rise in the east after sunset come December - thats when it will be at "opposition" from the earth -that's when its on the same side of the sun as earth and its closest to earth and becomes very bright.

Next time ya'll are outside in the early evening, an hour or 2 past sunset, look to the West - the VERY bright star you see (you can't miss it) is Venus - earth's twin. If you have a pair of binoculars give it a look - you will be able to make it out as a thin crescent - just like the moon.

[Coelho]

So, Mars is visible before the sunrise? Ive been tracking down the planets since last year, but after a cloudy/rainy season, i missed Mars, and couldnt find it. Thank you for finding it for me! :thumbsup:
And besides Venus, Jupiter is clearly visible too... its very bright (not as much as venus, though) and very high in the sky at midnight (Or, rather, high in the sky in the south hemisphere... at the north hemisphere it must be not so high...) It is very near the Scorpio, and today (full moon) its very near the moon too. But, since there is not very bright stars near it, its easy to find anyway...

[Ubalubus]

So, Mars is visible before the sunrise? Ive been tracking down the planets since last year, but after a cloudy/rainy season, i missed Mars, and couldnt find it. Thank you for finding it for me! :thumbsup:
And besides Venus, Jupiter is clearly visible too... its very bright (not as much as venus, though) and very high in the sky at midnight (Or, rather, high in the sky in the south hemisphere... at the north hemisphere it must be not so high...) It is very near the Scorpio, and today (full moon) its very near the moon too. But, since there is not very bright stars near it, its easy to find anyway...

You can also see Saturn in the evening a few hours after sunset - its the medium-bright yellow star just to the right of Leo in the south/south-west sky. By the way, I took the pic of saturn in my avatar myself with my telescope and digi-camera :)

[Coelho]

Indeed... i did see it today... ive been following it since last year, when it was near gemini...
And that picture of saturn is very nice! When i was in college the people from astrophysics department would let people look at the telescope they had, and i used to go there whenever i could. One of the first things i looked was exactly saturn, and it looked exactly as your picture... it was amazing... it seemed somebody had put a picture of it in front of the telescope, so sharp it was the image... it was somewhat hard to believe the image i was seeing was really the image of that "star there up in the sky"...
Once i went to a real observatory and did take some pictures... they are not very good, as they were taken in the interval between the real observations, and only after much coaxing, cause the teacher didnt want we distract from our work... the one i posted is jupiter.

[Samwhore]

"She blinded me with science!"

[Ubalubus]

"She blinded me with science!"

Good heavens miss mergatroid....

Back a few jobs ago, on occassion I had to work on the weekends. Me and the security guard used to toke out back on the loading dock. "Science" was his code word for weed... And it was from that song, so ya had to say it the right way! You just reminded me of him :)

[Ubalubus]

the one i posted is jupiter.

That's actually a pretty damn good picture there!

There's a really good amateur astrophotography section at Telescope Reviews | Cloudy Nights (http://www.cloudynights.com)

Here's a bunch of my pics i've taken over the past few years:
Astronomy (http://www.bobndenise.com/Astronomy/astronomy.htm)

[Storm Crow]

Was in San Diego, some 35 years ago, when there was a huge forest fire. An67y fires in your area? Wouldn't have to be that close- the wind can make it drift for miles. Even the sun was reddish for a couple of days!- Granny:hippy:

[Nocturnal Stoner]

it means you're stoned

[Coelho]

That's actually a pretty damn good picture there!

There's a really good amateur astrophotography section at Telescope Reviews | Cloudy Nights (http://www.cloudynights.com)

Here's a bunch of my pics i've taken over the past few years:
Astronomy (http://www.bobndenise.com/Astronomy/astronomy.htm)

Thank you! That sites have a lot of very good pictures too! And you telescope seems amazing! I wish i had one of these, so i would enjoy much better the fall's clear nights there is here...

[OniEhtRedrum781]

I saw a rainbow aura around the moon once...

A random passer-by yelled out "Hey!!!! There's a rainbow around the moon!!!" and sure enough, there was...

[Oppositional P]

Yay for science!

absolutely, and to hell with everything else!

[Coelho]

I saw a rainbow aura around the moon once...

A random passer-by yelled out "Hey!!!! There's a rainbow around the moon!!!" and sure enough, there was...

Me too! Its an amazing sight! And i saw this around the sun sometimes too...
When there is certain kind of clouds in the sky (cirrus-like ones), if you look to the direction of the sun, through this clouds, with dark glasses, and cover the sun with the hand, looking only to the parts of the clouds very near to the sun, sometimes you can see the some clouds are coloured with the rainbow colors, but mixed. Very impressive, and beautiful too.

[onequickmove]

the different colors of light represent different wavelengths. i think the blue ones are more choppy (like a fast heartbeat on a monitor) and the red ones are more long wavelength, like a drawn out wave; anyway, i think that the red ones get to earth easier than the blue ones; when there's a sunset, and it's orange, it's cuz the sun is low on the horizon and thus as the earth rotates away from it it is farther away and less blue light makes it the distance ( i think)

perhaps similar with the moon? isn't it the same that when it's low on the horizon?

or maybe it's the way the light hits the atmosphere, not sureq

[onequickmove]

Orange Moon (http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonorange/)

ok, so i was on the right track

[onequickmove]

it's kinda scary how easy it is to find info with the internet and my buddy google these days ;)