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[Pipe Dreams]

What does an orange moon mean?

Pipe Dreams Reviewed by Pipe Dreams on 05-04-2007. Someone whos good with science? What does an orange moon mean? Rating: 5

[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

[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...