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“The reddened shadow of planet Earth plays across the lunar disk in this telescopic image taken on May 26 near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On that crisp, clear autumn night a Perigee Full Moon slid through the northern edge of the shadow's dark central umbra. Short for a lunar eclipse, its total phase lasted only about 14 minutes. The Earth's shadow was not completely dark though. Instead it was suffused with a faint red light from all the planet's sunsets and sunrises seen from the perspective of an eclipsed Moon, the reddened sunlight scattered by Earth's atmosphere. The HDR composite of 6 exposures also shows the wide range of brightness variations within Earth's umbral shadow against a faint background of stars.”

Courtesy of Astronomy Picture of Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210528.html
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Bill_I_Am

They sure do!

WPGP

Red light and pink light make for beautiful moons!

dhi

;-)

Bill_I_Am

You're welcome, ladies! And that's right, Donna.

dhi

Thanks for the delightful post, link and info.

I was curious about why pink and supposedly, In other words, the Sun or Moon tends to look orange or red or pink when it is rising or setting because that’s the time when the light has to travel through the most atmosphere to get to you."
Grandma, Why Is The Moon Pink… | passions and soapboxes
passionsandsoapboxes.com/2009/05/14/grandma-why-is-the-moon-pink/

Mischka

Oh, gosh! I see. Thank you for clarifying for me. I'll send the APOD link to my brother, thanks!

Bill_I_Am

Fiona, I don't believe the eclipse was visible in the eastern half of the U.S. You should go to the APOD link above and send that to your brother, or to Peter Ward's page if all you want is the image.

Mischka

THIS is what we missed! And I calculated that, by the time it crossed kinda over Miami, it would have been behind trees, which assuages my regret. Fantastic. I'm going to copy the pic and email it to my brother, another enthusiast of what appears in the sky. Come to think of it, he's in Tallahassee, so he's not only 500 miles north of me, he probably got a friend to let him into an observatory.

But we do thank you greatly.

Bill_I_Am

Yes, since I didn't see it myself. 😀

Isaly2

Spectacular photo!

Bill_I_Am

Glad you enjoyed it, Ms_Maddy!

Ms_Maddy

Great pic!

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