orange moon?

[Oat]

Why did the moon have a tint of orange to it last night? (I was viewing from north oxon)

is this something to do with the prenumbral lunar eclipse? But what actually gives that orange glow?

[Charon]

It has an orange tint to it over here too, due, I think to the large amount of dust/fine sand (blown over from Libya) in the atmosphere.

[brantuk]

It's the sunlight refracting through the atmosphere stripping out everything but red wavelengths and bouncing off the moon. It also makes the moon appear twice as large as it usually is when higher up. I saw exactly what you describe two nights ago.

[chiltonstar]

The colour here last night seemed to me the usual whitish-yellow.....

Annoyingly, the correlation between full moon and a clear sky was demonstrated yet again!

Chris

[Pete Presland]

it was very coppery while low down, i took a few snap when the clouds were blocking the planetary show in the west!

[Kaptos]

I got told a few years ago that it was called a 'Moonrise'; when the Moon is Orange and low down.

[jimmyjamjoejoe]

Did seem much more orange and stayed orange much higher than usual lastnight, must've been a lot if stuff in the atmosphere. Low stars were also particularly flashy, from very deep reds to bright vivid greens, so much so i thought one of them was a plane!

[yesteryeargames]

Took this picture of it down in cornwall, its been like this the past 2 nghts.

[todd8137]

All manner of things as to why it was this color some strange and some weird ,not sure my self but looks great

pat