On November 7, 2023, a pink moon was captured by Bryan Kadik of Houston during the total lunar eclipse. Credit: Brian Kudnik
All lunar eclipses-sheds offer the ideas of the Earth’s shadow, partial, or clan. Often, lunar eclipses provide the effects of strange color, in which the shadow moon appears as red color due to the position of the Earth’s atmosphere. But 14 March, 2025, the total lunar eclipse guarantees all but a different type of additional optical events, some of which can distort the perception of reality, even if in a moment.
Let’s start with color effects. For example, Bryan Kudnik of Houston took the strange pink moon. 7/8 was seen during the total lunar eclipse of 2022. The Kudnik assumed a Samsung galaxy by holding a selesteron 11 binoculars by a 41 mm app of 11 telescopic. In his image, he writes, “It … well guess what I saw through the app – a pink tinge for eclipse.”
Cudnik noticed that the color started about 15 minutes before totality and lasted almost the third umbral contact. However, through 20 × 80 telescopes and without eyes, the totality appeared more orange. Specific colors of pink can be made by mixing red/orange and white, so a clear visual discrepancy between the telescope visual and binoculars/naked-eye view can be caused by simply color mixture and image shape. If you look at the image of the binoculars of the pink moon of Cudnik from a distance, the moon suddenly becomes more orange.
But the morphing appearance of the moon is not limited to only changes in color. Another reader from Salt Lake City, who said that during May 26, 2021, during the total lunar eclipse, he saw confusion Chandra Canals, an incident that was extended by passing the clouds on the eclipse moon.
Boman’s observation is reminiscent of a surprising visual effect that appears during lunar eclipses. During deep penmbral and umbrella stages, the major edges of the Earth’s shadow may look highly irregular but highly irregular. The lunar shape may look large or strangely different. Some are small and packed, others are long and thin. This is a visible confusion created by various optical effects because the winding shade of the Earth interacts with the dark mare features on the moon.
While we know intellectually, the edge of the Earth’s shadow is curved, all kinds of irregularities can only appear under certain conditions, such as the moon enter the lunar disc, and depend on the intensity (light or dark) of the shadow and the visual perception of someone. For example, September 17/18, 2024, partial lunar eclipse offered visual confusion and size effects. First, as soon as the Earth’s shadow entered the northern lunar organ, the winding edge tip the mare bleeds in the long form of frigoris, which suddenly appears as if it had mustache. The shadow then slipped into the northern access of the mare embridry, making the shadow look like a maple leaf. Around that time, a pronounced red color also appeared in the mare embridge. This may be due to the color of the Earth’s shadow, which was expected to turn red.
Nevertheless, I was found to be anxious. One would expect the red color of the Earth’s shade to be the most clear on the bright lunar highlands. But the red-brown tone I saw was like an island of color in the Northern Ghori Imbrium, which looked the most prominent to the south of Crater Plato. I suspect that the red color of the Earth’s shadow somehow increased the soft and subtle red tone of this late-stage iron-rich section of the mare basalt-where Chang’s 5 lunar sampler mission landed.
After the maximum eclipse (only 8 percent), Umbral shade lacus slipped on the east side on parts of Mortis and Lacus Somniorum, causing more irregularity to the last vesties of Umbral Shadeige before the mare flends was seen as a tadle.
Now I am interested in knowing what you see during the total eclipse of this month, when the Ubal shadow will sweep from the east and all the lunar mare will pass. As usual, tell me what you see or do not look at sjomeara31@gmail.com.
