I just saw the full moon rising, and it's a beautiful orange color. What causes that?
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Jodie44
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Smog...=(
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At full moon, the Moon is almost on the opposite side of the Earth to the Sun although not quite all lined up. That means that to get to the Moon, light from the Sun has to skim through our atmosphere. It has to go through a lot of atmosphere and, for the same reason that sunsets look reddy-orange, the light which gets to the Moon is slightly orange tinged; some of the blue part of the spectrum has been filtered out by Earth's atmosphere. The light has to come back, through a lot of atmosphere, to your eye. It is this last trip which will do the rest of the reddening. That way, the amount of reddening will depend on your local pollution levels - different countries will see different colors. The Moon should also get less red as it gets higher above the horizon as there is less atmosphere for the light to travel through.
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it's from the scattering of light rays through the atmosphere. the moon is full at 8:48 E.S.T. july 29th.
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It is because of the atmosphere see this page for more information. http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000305.shtml
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God
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Atmospheric pollution filtering out the shorter length light rays, favoring the frequencies approaching red, hence orange. The red shift has longer wavelengths which can penetrate better than the blue shift frequencies, so the blues & greens & purples get left behind when the moon's reflected light attempts to penetrate the atmosphere. We see what's left over, and that's the yellow-to-red stuff. The moon gets whiter as it rises because the path of the light through the atmosphere is shorter as the moon approaches an overhead position, hence, less filtering by the atmosphere.
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There you go Jodie , I can't explain it like others can , so I thought I'd bring it to you + 5
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