mysticeagle opened this issue on Mar 04, 2012 · 42 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 04 March 2012 at 8:46 PM
Its real appearance is yellow or orange. Its real color is gray.
What you see is the product of the light color and the moon color.
Did you find my explanation of what you see versus what it is unusable?
It is yellow light bouncing off gray rock, and so it looks yellow. When that passes ghrough blue sky, some blue is added to the yellow making white. But there is less blue close to the horizon, and the passage of light through a lot of atmosphere removes blue and green, leaving more red, thus it looks orange.
There are many atmospheric situations. Ever hear of a blue moon?
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