Why does the moon look red or yellow at times?

Answer 1

Possibly you're looking at a lunar eclipse. I don't see any on the schedule but that's normally what causes it. The moon goes into the Earth's shadow first the preumbra and then the umbra. When it does only the red part of the sun's spectrum of light is bent by the Earth's gravity enough to hit the moon. So the moon looks red.

Answer 2

The sky is blue is because of the way the atmosphere refracts light.

At noon or during daytime, the sun rays passes through the minimum possible amount of atmosphere but at sunset it passes through a much greater distance of atmosphere.

This is because the light is coming through the atmosphere sideways instead of straight through.

Thus only the red light penetrates has the wavelength to penetrate all this air and that is why it gives the red color.

Answer 3

I think the sun is red when a lot of smoke is in the air because the gases in the fire travels with the wind and passes through the sun.When the gases pass through the sun the gases mix in with the other gases.When they do that the chemicals mix together and change the suns color.So it goes from orange to red.That is how i think it happens.

Answer 4

During a lunar eclipse, much like the recent one, the earth blocks light from the sun from reaching the moon. But some light still diffuses through the earth's atmosphere, which absorbs light on the blue side of the visible spectrum, thus leaving red light to reach the moon.

Answer 5

There are several times the moon might appear reddish. Each is caused by a different reason.

The moon turns red in a lunar eclipse because it's not receiving direct sunlight, but it is getting a small amount of light scattered through the Earth's atmosphere. The atmosphere scatters blue light more than red, so most of the blue light winds up heading any old way; the red light continues through more or less straight, and that's what winds up lighting the moon, so it turns red.

The moon appears red (or orange) near the horizon for basically the same reason, though in this case, the light from the moon is white .... it's just that the blue part gets scattered out, and the longer red wavelengths make it through to your eyes.

Answer 6

When the Sun goes below the horizon, we can still see it! The Earth's atmosphere acts as a lens, bending the Sun's light around the Earth at least a little; this refraction separates the white light of the Sun into a spectrum. This is why sunrises and sunsets look red; the Sun's light is bent around from the other side of the World.

During a lunar eclipse, the Moon goes into the shadows, and is no longer hit by the direct rays of the Sun. However, the bent rays - the red light of all the sunrises and sunsets all around the world - continue out of the Earth's atmosphere and some of them strike the Moon.

So the red Moon during an eclipse is the light of the sunrises and sunsets of the entire Earth all at once.

Answer 7

because of your eyes and how the clouds appear maybe that's why

Answer 8

The air pollution determines if its red or not

Answer 9

The warm color of the moon shortly after it rises is caused by light from the moon passing through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead.

Answer 10

Because some sun light is refracted by earths atmosphere, only the red part of the spectrum is refracted enough to hit the moon.