Thread: the moon

Originally Posted by Bobcock

pics to follow

Yay!


Start yer own thread on them if ya wouldn't mind.

it seems the earth passed between the sun and moon, cast a shadow on/over the moon, the moon was still lit by starlight, giving it a red colour.

A frog ate the moon.

Are you all stoopid or what?

^ at last a sensible explanation.

Sorry CM I put the pics in your other thread before I saw your message.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

A frog ate the moon.

That's what a motorcycle taxi driver told me last night. Gop Kin Deuan or some crazy shit. I thought he was drunk.

The reason for redness
So why can you still see the moon during a total eclipse? It’s because some sunlight is still hitting it, and for that you can thank our atmosphere. Particles in the atmosphere cause the light rays coming from the sun to bounce around. Some are refracted, or bent. They get redirected through the atmosphere and out around behind Earth and onto the moon, which is blocked only from direct sunlight.

Thus, the moon is still visible in the sky. However, the refracted rays of sunlight doing the illuminating turn the moon a strange reddish. Or copper. Maybe rust.

That’s because of all the bouncing around those rays had to go through on their way through the atmosphere. The more atmosphere that sunlight travels through, the more the blue and green parts of the spectrum are scattered. That’s why sunrises and sunsets are yellow and pink and red. The low early or late sun, hitting the atmosphere at a shallow angle, has to fight through more atmospheric particles on its way to your eye, and the reddish wavelengths get through better.

The same thing happens to sunlight refracted onto the moon during an eclipse. The sunlight hits the atmosphere on the sides of Earth at a shallow angle and is carried through a lot of atmosphere until it’s redirected out onto the moon “hiding” from direct sunlight. The red end of the spectrum is all that can get through that much interference. So the moon in total eclipse appears as an eerie, glowing copper ball in the sky.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

A frog ate the moon.

Yep. Wife confirms it. She's never heard it called 'frog ate the moon' either. Everyone is talking bollox's.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Yep. Wife confirms it. She's never heard it called 'frog ate the moon' either.

Strange bunch aren't they?

Weird! I didn't know frogs like cheese.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Yep. Wife confirms it. She's never heard it called 'frog ate the moon' either.

Strange bunch aren't they?

Someone has to be, I guess.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Yep. Wife confirms it. She's never heard it called 'frog ate the moon' either.

Strange bunch aren't they?

Uuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrr..