{"id":26441,"date":"2025-03-25T04:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26441"},"modified":"2025-03-25T04:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:56:37","slug":"26441","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26441","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2503\/LunarEclipseColors_Jin_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 Norman, Oklahoma (USA) &#8212; has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The gray color on the upper right of the top lunar image is the Moon&#8217;s natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The lower parts of the Moon on all three images are not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed &#8212; it is 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 purple-blue band visible on the upper right of the top and middle images is different &#8212; its color is augmented by sunlight that has passed high through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, where red light is better absorbed by ozone than blue. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250325.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=26441\" 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-26441","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\/26441","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=26441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26442,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26441\/revisions\/26442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}