{"id":24599,"date":"2021-12-01T05:56:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24599"},"modified":"2021-12-01T05:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:56:26","slug":"a-blue-banded-blood-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24599","title":{"rendered":"A Blue Banded Blood Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2112\/BlueRedMoon_Yu_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week&#8217;s lunar eclipse, however &#8212; taken from Yancheng, China &#8212; has been digitally processed to equalize the Moon&#8217;s brightness and exaggerate the colors. The gray color of the bottom right is the Moon&#8217;s natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The upper left part of the Moon is not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed &#8212; it in the Earth&#8217;s shadow. It is faintly lit, though, by sunlight that has passed deep through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. This part of the Moon is red &#8212; and called a blood Moon &#8212; for the same reason that Earth&#8217;s sunsets are red: because air scatters away more blue light than red. The unusual blue band is different &#8212; its color is created by sunlight that has passed high through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, where red light is better absorbed by ozone than blue. A total eclipse of the Sun will occur tomorrow but, unfortunately, totality be visible only near the Earth&#8217;s South Pole. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap211201.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24599\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24600,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24599\/revisions\/24600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}