Blood Red Moon

[Guest &one]

here in VT you should be able to see it from 7:05am to 7:25am and it will be the first time anyone on the planet has ever seen it To bad i will be in bed that is way to early for me. Even for a once in a life time experence o well just becareful if any of you do watch it as you are not suppose to look directly into the sun. ENJOY

[Guest Wellington]

Hi

No need to panic! The show will be back in 2012 before its century of sleep. We may be more lucky in the transit times and be able to watch it from beginning to end. Timing it is a good way to calculate the distance to the sun, so if anyone has planned a trip there it will be easier to estimate the fuel cunsumption.

Regards

[Guest se7en]

se7en

[Guest fledgling666]

it's from the crap in our atmosphere

no it's not, it's from red light being the longest wavelength of light, being able to pass through more of the earth's atmosphere than any other color in the spectrum. when the sun is setting, you are seeing it's light penetrating the atmosphere at an angle, making it's path through it to your eyes a lot longer and therefore, the main color that survives the prism effect of the dust particles and water in the air is red. everything else gets scattered to the point where it stops progress toward you and simply lights up the area closer to the sun.