Question

Why does the moon appear orange sometimes?

Answer 1

It's called a harvest Moon. Why they call it that I don't know since it occurs at all times during the course of a year.

Answer 2

2 reasons:. 1- Air pollution, . 2- The angle of the moon and the horizon. It is basically the same thing with the sun, when it rises or sets. The sun turns as it goes lower in the sky and its angle with the horizon changes.

Answer 3

Cheese always turns that colour when it's been left for too long

Answer 4

At night, when the moon is right overhead, it looks white. White light is made up of all different colors of light, including blue. . . When the moon is right overhead, it comes straight through the atmosphere, so not much of the blue light gets scattered. But when the moon gets close to the horizon, it isn't coming at you straight on. It's kind of slanting at us, and it's going through a lot more air.. . The more air the white moonlight has to go through, the more chance for the short wavelength (blue) light to get scattered out. The green light is pretty short too, so it gets filtered out too. . . What's left is the red and yellow light. . . And that's why you only see the red and yellow light when the moon gets close to the horizon, and that's why the moon looks red oor yellow whenever it is about to rise or set.

Answer 5

I think it has to do with the amount of carbon dioxde and solid polluntants in the air. The moon does not turn orange, it only appears orange because as moonlight passes through these gas and pollutants, the moonlight diffuses and appears orange.. That is also how you get orange sunset and sunrise.