Why does the harvest moon look yellow?
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Because of dust in the air.  The angle is the same year round.  What makes the yellow moon look yellow is the amount of dust in the air, and at harvest time it is caused by increased agricultural activity.\n\nVolcanic dust is smaller and higher and can make the moon look blue.
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The moon is basically a great big lump of dull coloured rock that floats around quarter of a million miles from us.  Just like earth, it's illuminated by the sun so what you're seeing is reflected sunlight.\n\nIt can appear as different colours due to the atmosphere here on earth.\n\nWhen the moon is up in the sky you're looking at it through a thin layer of atmosphere but when it's low on the horizon you're looking through a greater amount of atmosphere.\n\nThe way that our atmosphere breaks up sunlight into differnt colours (Rayleigh Scattering) affects the colour that the moon appears to be.  So too can particles in the atmosphere - particularly dust and volcanic ash which often gives it a reddish tinge.
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during winter season,the plant does not prepare its food.that means it doesn't require chlorophyll which is used in photosynthesis.the color of the leaves of the plants is due to chlorophyll but otherwise the leaves are actually yellow or orange etc in color so in winters when chlorophyll pigment disappears,the leaves shows its true color.the leaves dry because of lack of food and water which is not necessarily during winters only,it can be due to injury or disease etc also.
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The moon goes through phases which effect the ways in which it's illuminated as seen from Earth. \n\nAlso, the moon often looks orange and large when it rises or sets for the same reason sunsets are orange, because it is low on the horizon and the light is shining through a lot of the atmosphere so red light  is seen more than other colors, to simplify things greatly.
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The temperature of the sum's surface gives it's characteristic color. If an object with a small hole in it were heated to the same temperature the light comming out of the hole would have the same temperature. i.e., black body radation.\n\nAlso because our eyes the characteristic light as yellow. Namely, the three color sensors in our eyes senses the Yellow more brightly than the red and blue. So, we see yellow.
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Stars emit their own bright light, so to our eyes it looks white. Moon reflects the sun rays, so the easiest colour of light absorbed and reflected is white. That is why.
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Why is the Sun yellow? \nIt isn't, really. The color yellow is a purely human interpretation of a collection of radiation that hits the retinae of our eyes and gets processed by our visual cortex. \nAnimals seem to have some analogous way of discriminating light by some kind of 'coloration' sense, but we have no way to know if their brains actually 'see' the same thing we do when they look at 'yellow' light. Color detection is caused by photosensitive cells called 'cones', and some animals have none of these and would see the Sun as, presumably some shade of grey since there retinae have the black-white sensitive 'rods' instead, and which have a greater light sensitivity.
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It is yellowish to clear in color and sweet smelling.
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Its an illusion.  Its because the moon is closer to objects to which you can compare it.
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Yellow. Because I'm sour and afraid.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, the Harvest Moon is the full moon that appears nearest to the autumnal equinox, which occurs on or about 23 September. It is also known as the Wine Moon, the Singing Moon and the Elk Call Moon.  Sometimes it occurs in October, depending on the cycles of the moon.\n\nThe appearance of the Harvest Moon begins the first of the harvesting months in the Northern Hemisphere. Many cultures celebrate the harvests with gatherings, festivals, and rituals that are closely associated with the Harvest Moon.\n\nAt this time, the moon rises at a point which is opposite to the sun, and is situated close to the eastern point of the horizon.\n\nIt is sometimes claimed that the harvest moon seems to be somehow "larger" than other full moons. The human eye sees a low hanging moon as being larger than one that rides high in the sky. This is known as a Moon illusion, because the image of the moon in the sky is always the same size. A similar lunar effect is seen at the time of the spring equinox, which occurs on or about 21 March.\n\nThe harvest moon gets its name from the fact that farmers who were harvesting their crops at this time of year were able to use the extra light of the harvest moon to continue the work in the fields. In October, the full moon can exhibit a similar effect, and is called the hunter's moon because it could be used to hunt game. There was also a Neil Young album of the same name out in the early 1990's.
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rises? the moon never sets you can always see it where i'm from(los angeles) day or night. as to why it looks orange? i don't know about orange. bright yellow maybe.
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The moon is made of rocks with a high mineral content, including rhyolite.  The combination of materials absorbs all colors of light relatively equally, reflecting a combination of colors that is translated by our eyes as gray.
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During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll. \n\nThe bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in the fall. In some trees, like maples, glucose is trapped in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn cause the leaves turn this glucose into a red color. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves. \n\nIt is the combination of all these things that make the beautiful colors we enjoy in the fall. \n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html\n\nGOOD LUCK\n\nParadiso
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The soil is very iron-rich. When iron oxidizes, it produces iron oxide which is basically rust and it red in color. :)\n\nAnd interesting side fact, the dawn and dusk sky is blue. (It's reddish on Earth :)
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The last half Moon around Mar. 7 was as far north in the sky as it can get. But when the Moon is really high for Americans it never gets high for Aussies. That's why the Moon was so low.\nLater in the month the Moon will be high. On March 22 the Moon will look VERY high right before sunrise. It will be only about 15 moon diameters from directly overhead. Fall is the worst time of year to see a high moon from mid-latitudes in both hemispheres. If you want to know the reason in detail you can email me.
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They are all different colors depending on the breed.  I don't know if I've ever seen a yellow one, except for those nasty peeps that show up around Easter.