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Originally Posted by Treehawk  Not certain where to post this.
Well one day when I woke up at about 7:00 I saw this out my window: 
It was definately the moon as the sun was on the other side of the sky but it was lit up red and it was definately "setting". You could stare at it and you could actually see it sink in the sky, and it was only visible for about 1 minute. I have never seen this before. (Oh and I am living in Canada at the moment).
I am not sure how to explain it. |
Perhaps the reason you have never seen it before is just because you have never been up at the right time!
The moon will often look red when it is low in the sky, just as the sun does - it is the effect of the greater amount of Earth's atmosphere the light has to pass through filtering out the blue part of the spectrum.
henrya