while on my way home from the grocery store tonight, i saw the strangest thing behind some clouds. now to give ya lil info, i live in b.f.e so the sky is always clear. so anywho, as i drove a lil bit further and the clouds started to break, i noticed it was the moon and it was the most amazing orange.
i raced home so i could get some pics. i wasn't sure if the higher it went, it would lose it's color or not. fortunetly not. so i was able to get a ton of pics.
i am going to have to do some research as to why the moon was orange tonight.
do you know? fill me in :)
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The reason for the orange color is due to the scattering of light by the atmosphere. When the moon is near the horizon, the moonlight has to pass through much more atmosphere than when the moon is directly overhead. By the time the moonlight reaches your eyes, most of the shorter waves (green, blue, violet) of visible light have been scattered away by air molecules. You only see the longer wavelength of yellow, orange, or red.
When there's a lot of dust, smoke, or pollution in the atmosphere, the moon appears orange even when it's directly overhead. The size of those particles will determine the type of color you will see. Sometimes the moon will look red, orange...even blue.
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