Comments on: Total Lunar Eclipse http://www.marclehmann.net/2007/08/total-lunar-eclipse/ are you playing the game or watching from the stands? Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:51:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: marcleh http://www.marclehmann.net/2007/08/total-lunar-eclipse/#comment-43 marcleh Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:38:36 +0000 http://www.marclehmann.net/2007/08/54/#comment-43 cool thanks! I won't look like the guy in the Bigpond add when i next answer a tough question from my kids! cool thanks! I won’t look like the guy in the Bigpond add when i next answer a tough question from my kids!

]]> By: leah maclean http://www.marclehmann.net/2007/08/total-lunar-eclipse/#comment-42 leah maclean Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:44:16 +0000 http://www.marclehmann.net/2007/08/54/#comment-42 Good shots Mark of last night's spectacular moon. My kids are now "adults" and very only vaguely interested so you were lucky to have your there and sharing it with them. The reason that it turns pink/red is that as the light from the sun passes through the Earth's atmosphere on the way to the moon, it absorbs the blue spectrum from the white light of the sun and thus leaves the red spectrum colours to be the little light that does fall on the moon during the eclipse. Well at least that's the layman's reasons. I'm sure that there are cosmologists out there that could give a much more detailed explanation. Good shots Mark of last night’s spectacular moon. My kids are now “adults” and very only vaguely interested so you were lucky to have your there and sharing it with them.

The reason that it turns pink/red is that as the light from the sun passes through the Earth’s atmosphere on the way to the moon, it absorbs the blue spectrum from the white light of the sun and thus leaves the red spectrum colours to be the little light that does fall on the moon during the eclipse.

Well at least that’s the layman’s reasons. I’m sure that there are cosmologists out there that could give a much more detailed explanation.

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