Why does the moon turn orange?
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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.
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The moon is gorgeous. I love the moon. It is so mystical and romantic.
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It is an optical illusion.  The moon appears to be larger because you are comparing it to smaller things.  They have taken very careful measurements and determined that, in fact, the moon is the same size no matter where it is in the sky.\n\nThere was a theory for a while that the moon appears larger because objects in general appear larger when you look horizontally at them.  I have to admit I have a soft spot for that theory no matter how hare-brained it may seem.  After all, your heart jumps when you look down (and maybe up?) a long cliff, but you don't get the same effect when you imagine the same situation in a horizontal context.  I've heard this theory was mostly debunked, so I can't seriously suggest it anymore.
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This is when the moon is in front of the sun in respect to the earth. It is also called conjunction.
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The tidal forces between the Earth and the Moon slowed the Moon's rotation until it became locked with its orbit around the Earth. The Moon therefore always keeps the same side of its surface facing the Earth. As the Moon orbits the Earth, the entire half facing the sun is illuminated, but the amount of this lighted half that we can see changes. Thus the Moon seems to change shape or phase. The far side of the Moon is lighted part of the time and dark part of the time as well; hence it is incorrect to refer to it as the "dark side of the Moon" (sorry, Pink Floyd).\n\nFor a picture of what the far side of the moon looks like check\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/9810/farside_apollo16.jpg&imgrefurl=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981008.html&h=432&w=421&sz=41&hl=en&sig2=9NUu37Lghow0vp6Kt4utAw&start=3&tbnid=zr8LzmzCjXAnwM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=123&ei=y7hmRb_rDbXmwQGpmMHlAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfar%2Bside%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmoon%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
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1)\nThis effect is caused by the atmosphere of the earth. The reason for the orange color is due to the scattering of light by the atmosphere. When the moon is near the horizon, the moonlight must pass through much more atmosphere than when the moon is directly overhead. By the time the moonlight reaches your eyes, the blue, green, and purple pieces of visible light have been scattered away by air molecules. That's why you only see yellow, orange, or red.\nThe moon can have an orange color at any time of the year. Sometimes the moon appears orange even when it's directly overhead. This occurs when there's a lot of dust, smoke, or pollution in the atmosphere. The size of those particles will determine the type of color you will see. \n\n2)\nStep outside and you'll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth's moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something's wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It's huge!\nYou've just experienced the Moon Illusion.\nSky watchers have known this for thousands of years: moons hanging low in the sky look unnaturally big. Cameras don't see it, but our eyes do. It's a real illusion. When you look at the moon, rays of moonlight converge and form an image about 0.15 mm wide in the back of your eye. High moons and low moons make the same sized spot. So why does your brain think one is bigger than the other? After all these years, scientists still aren't sure why. A similar illusion was discovered in 1913 by Mario Ponzo.
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The moon is orange in the fall, because it's celebrating Halloween! Just Kidding! Actually, the moon can have an orange color at any time of the year. As a matter of fact, just last month (December 1997) in Michigan, there were a few nights when the moon looked big and orange. \nThe reason for the orange color is due to the scattering of light by the atmosphere. When the moon is near the horizon, the moonlight has to pass through much more atmosphere than when the moon is directly overhead. By the time the moonlight reaches your eyes, the green, blue, and purple pieces of visible light have been scattered away by air molecules. You only see yellow, orange, or red. \n\nSometimes the moon appears orange even when it's directly overhead. This occurs when there's a lot of dust, smoke, or pollution in the atmosphere. The size of those particles will determine the type of color you will see. Sometimes the moon will look red, orange...even blue. \n\nIt seems like the moon appears in certain colors during certain times of the year. For instance, the Harvest moon during the fall appears very large and orange. There are two reasons for this: the moon's path across the sky, and the climate of earth. During certain times of the year, the moon will rise and set at different angles. Sometimes the moon stays really low in the sky and never reaches an overhead position. The earth's atmosphere also goes through certain changes at certain times of the year. In some months, the atmosphere has more dust particles than usual; in other months, the atmosphere contains a lot more cloud particles than usual. Extra particles in the atmosphere mean more scattering of light. \n\nIn the fall, many farmers are harvesting their crops. Lots of dust from the soil of the crops gets disturbed. The dust floats into the atmosphere. At the same time, the moon is lower in the sky during the fall season. So if there's more dust in the sky and the moon is closer to the horizon, then what color will the moon be? Orange! That's where "Harvest Moon" gets its name. \n\nPollution in the atmosphere can cause the same distortion of color. If you live in Los Angeles (which has a lot of pollution), for example, the moon will constantly appear in color. If the pollution is really thick, you might not be able to see the moon at all!
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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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I don't think it's very nice to call someone an idiot for asking a reasonable question.  \n\nBut the two answers you have already are correct, it's the sun light reflecting off the moon that causes it to "glow".
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You only see one side of the moon from the Earth because the moon spins and rotates at just the right speeds.  As the moon revolves around the Earth it also spins around it's axis.  These two speeds happen to be just right so that the same side of the moon is always facing the Earth.  The phases of the moon are caused by the Earth casting a shadow on the moon, you can only see the part of the moon that's reflecting light from the Sun.
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What confuses you about the moon? Most planets have them. Ours is old, lifeless, has a high reflectivity, and rotates once for every revolution (so we always see the same side). Why are you confused?
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it's because they use the moon to navigate.  artificial light confuses them.
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First of all i would like to say that you are some kind of good thinker.. well for 4 years old, this kind of question may too complex for you. But i try to answer it for our knowledge.\n\nWell the moon is not just go down when the sun is up. The world is rotating itself, while the world is rotating around the sun. In the same time, the moon is rotating around the earth and the sun. When you are at any part of the earth expecially near to the equator, you will see some kind of nice organized pattern of when sun is out, the moon is gone, otherwise vise versa. \n\nWell, actually this is not the true. The moon is still there rotating around the earth in 24 hour time, but when the part of the earth where get alots of sun shine, the brighness of the moon will dissphere like you shine a touch in a good shinine day. The light from the touch will not seen as in the dark. But we cannot say that the ligh is gone. The light is still there but, due to the brigher light of the sun (higher cendela - unit for light), the reflaction light of moon is not seen.\n\nThere are some infomation that i can help you. It's good to think!!!
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Ok, this is kind of a long answer, but bear with me.  First off, the night would be no darker than it currently is during a new moon.  Remember, the moon is only up at night half of the time.\n\nHowever, the consequences of Earth having no moon would be much more severe.  Life as we know it would probably die out.\n\nOur moon is actually fairly large compared to our planet...this is what causes the strong tides people experience living on the ocean.  This tidal force also causes a much more subtle effect known as "precession".\n\nEarth's seasons are entirely determined by it's "axial tilt", the amount that our axis of rotation is tipped to the axis of our orbit (it has absolutely nothing to do with Earth being closer or further form the Sun).  During summer in the northern hemisphere, that hemisphere is tipped towards the Sun, while the southern hemisphere is tipped away from the Sun...that's why it's winter there.\n\nNow, throughout its history, Earth has had a relatively steady 23.5 degree tilt, meaning that the seasons have always been roughly the same intensity.  As mentioned, the moon's tidal forces causes precession, meaning the rotation axis carves out a wobble 23.5 degrees in radius every 26,000 years.  It's kind of like a top spinning...not only does it spin quickly, but as it also slowly wobbles from the Earth gravity.  The direction of the rotation axis changes, but the magnitude of the angle doesn't change.\n\nSo, the moon has a steadying effect on our axial tilt...so what?  Well, without it, our axial tilt could vary a lot, being caused by changing tidal forces from Jupiter and the Sun.  There's good evidence to show that this is exactly what happened to Mars...it has no large moons, just a couple tiny captured asteroids which exert very little tidal force.   As a result, it seems that Mars has varied anywhere from 0 degrees axial tilt (no seasons) up to a 60 degree axial tilt (crazy intense seasons) caused by the tidal forces of the Sun and Jupiter.\n\nWith an axial tilt of 60 degrees, that means all locations northward of 30 degrees get 24 hours of sunshine in summer, and absolutely no sunshine in winter.  With such strong seasons, it's likely the oceans would evaporate off...this seems to be the case on Mars, where there is mounting evidence that there was once a large northern ocean that mysteriously disappeared.\n\nSo, Short Answer: The seasons will become incredibly intense, the oceans would evaporate off, and without liquid water, all life would die.
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It's due to gravity. \nThe Moon Tide\nThe earth and the moon are two great masses that have a significant gravitational pull on each other. This is what keeps the moon in orbit around the earth, and it is also what causes tides to occur in the ocean. Picture the earth with a uniform level of water all around it.  The moon’s gravity pulls on the earth, and pulls the water towards it. The water moves up into a slight bulge on the side of the earth that faces the moon. At the same time, there is a force pulling water out in the opposite direction of the moon.\n\nCheck this link.\n\n\nIt will answer all your questions.\n http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/tides/tides.html
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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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The moon can appear orange when it is near the horizon.  The light from the moon (reflected light from the Sun) passes through a much longer path though the Earth atmosphere than when it is overhead.  Light that passes through the atmosphere is scatter by particles in the atmosphere but not in the same way for all wavelengths.  Blue light scatters more easily than red light.  When the near-white light from the moon passes through the atmopshere blue light is scattered away more that red light.  Removing more blue light makes the red light appear stronger.  The combined effect produces a red-orange hue.  This also explain with the sky is blue.  The blue is the scattered light.