total eclipse of the moon in the morning....

[stokemaveric]

so if you happen to wonder why the sky will be an eerie red colour...this is why....

[NazNomad]

why?

[boxtops]

There's a total eclipse of the moon in the morning, starting at 0630. At one stage the moon will appear to go red. If conditions are right.

[stokemaveric]

thanks boxtops i couldnt be a**ed to go into the finer detail lol

[askyourgran]

I swear I haven't been on the pop but I saw the sun shining and another sun or planet of some kind next to it on Saturday morning. Am I seeing things?

[NazNomad]

During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks the Sun's light from reaching the Moon. Astronauts on the Moon would then see the Earth completely eclipse the Sun. (They would see a bright red ring around the Earth as they watched all the sunrises and sunsets happening simultaneousely around the world!) While the Moon remains completely within Earth's umbral shadow, indirect sunlight still manages to reach and illuminate it. However, this sunlight must first pass deep through the Earth's atmosphere which filters out most of the blue colored light. The remaining light is a deep red or orange in color and is much dimmer than pure white sunlight. Earth's atmosphere also bends or refracts some of this light so that a small fraction of it can reach and illuminate the Moon.

[boxtops]

Gran, someone else mentioned that a few days back, apparently the moon and the sun were in the sky at the same time (that was one suggestion, anyway).

[NazNomad]

Probably a Sun dog ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

... or Nibiru, lol

[stokemaveric]

a sun dog??? i thought sam fox stopped modelling years ago.............