if you can see the moon right now, is it red?

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Dh is down at the beach fishing and has just rung me to say he can see the moon rising and it's red. I can't see it from here. Is there some sort of eclipse happening?

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just had a look but cant see any moon!

Last night it was huge and bright orange in dorset around 8pm abd very low

it's called 'blood on the moon'

A selenelion or selenehelion occurs when both the Sun and the eclipsed Moon can be observed at the same time. This can only happen just before sunset or just after sunrise, and both bodies will appear just above the horizon at nearly opposite points in the sky. This arrangement has led to the phenomenon being referred to as a horizontal eclipse. It happens during every lunar eclipse at all those places on the Earth where it is sunrise or sunset at the time. Indeed, the reddened light that reaches the Moon comes from all the simultaneous sunrises and sunsets on the Earth. Although the Moon is in the Earth's geometrical shadow, the Sun and the eclipsed Moon can appear in the sky at the same time because the refraction of light through the Earth's atmosphere causes objects near the horizon to appear higher in the sky than their true geometric position.[2]

The Moon does not completely disappear as it passes through the umbra because of the refraction of sunlight by the Earth's atmosphere into the shadow cone; if the Earth had no atmosphere, the Moon would be completely dark during an eclipse. The red colouring arises because sunlight reaching the Moon must pass through a long and dense layer of the Earth's atmosphere, where it is scattered. Shorter wavelengths are more likely to be scattered by the small particles, and so by the time the light has passed through the atmosphere, the longer wavelengths dominate. This resulting light we perceive as red. This is the same effect that causes sunsets and sunrises to turn the sky a reddish colour;

from wiki

Supposed to be a bad omen.

i have been for a look, no moon in sight. but i can only see east and west here.

big, full or nearly and orange here in Kent tonight

big, full or nearly and orange here in Kent tonight

sorry my laptop keeps getting stuck

Just sent DH out into the cold - no moon to be seen here in N Cornwall .

It's supposed to be a bad omen because it can often be caused by a larger than normal nuber of particles in the atmosphere - the sort of thing that happens after a catastrophic volcanic eruption etc etc.

moon explanation www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000305.shtml Wish I could see it!

sorry link is here

no idea about moon - oop north, very cloudy - but and at your DH ringing you up from a dark beach to tell you the moon is rising...

Awwww shucks! suppose it is really, and thre was me feeling like a fishing widow, you're right it is sweet.

I wish I was on a beach fishing.
With a little camp fire and the kids asleep in the bivvy...............