[AZ-Observing] Re: The Real Blue Moon

Well, all this talk of the causes of the blue moon are moot. Look at the 
photo by Tom King in Watauga, Texas. In that photo you can see what 
looks like an atmosphere forming a fuzzy blanket around the moon. 
Obviously, the moon turns blue on those rare occassions when it acquires 
and atmosphere!!!!!!  :-)
Stan

Dan Heim wrote:

>Jeff,
>
>Interesting, but I don't buy their explanation for a truly blue-colored
>Moon.  If one micron water droplets scatter red & green, they should also
>scatter blue and violet (which have shorter wavelengths).  At least that's
>my understanding of scattering.  Only when the wavelengths exceed the
>scattering body's dimensions do you get diffraction of waves around the
>body.  Unless I'm missing some other optical effect here?
>
>I read somewhere once that truly blue Moons can be caused by fine smoke
>particles which can act like a filter for blue light, but now that I think
>about it, that explanation suffers from the same problem.
>
>  
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