why is the moon yellow when it rises and sets?
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The moon is basically a great big lump of dull coloured rock that floats around quarter of a million miles from us.  Just like earth, it's illuminated by the sun so what you're seeing is reflected sunlight.\n\nIt can appear as different colours due to the atmosphere here on earth.\n\nWhen the moon is up in the sky you're looking at it through a thin layer of atmosphere but when it's low on the horizon you're looking through a greater amount of atmosphere.\n\nThe way that our atmosphere breaks up sunlight into differnt colours (Rayleigh Scattering) affects the colour that the moon appears to be.  So too can particles in the atmosphere - particularly dust and volcanic ash which often gives it a reddish tinge.
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It is.  It's just very dark blue so it looks black.  I'm sure you'll agree that even a "very bright" moon is a lot darker than the sun.  I took a picture at night for fifteen seconds at 1600 ISO on a hazy night and the sky came out blue.  I think the bright points (stars) add contrast to the sky that make it look dark so the haze evened the sky out.
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Dust in the upper atmosphere of Earth can make the moon appear to be yellow or orange, even red. The effect is strongest when the moon is near the horizon.
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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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The moon orbits the earth.  It does not 'rise'.  Look in any good newspaper to see what time it is visible in your area.  This information can be found in the weather section.
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The phases of the moon are the same around the world. What varies is the rise and set time. The US Naval Observatory is a great site for this.
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The blood red moon effect is caused when the earth is directly in between the sun and the moon (sort of like an eclipse) and the light bouncing off the moon is light in the red shift zone.
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Starting with the full moon - A day or two before the "full moon" you will see the moon rise just before sunset. At full moon it will rise as the sun sets, and of course after the sun sets as the time goes on. Each night after, notice how the light on the moon shrinks from full to last quarter and then to nothing (a 2 week time period).  Also during this time you will notice the moon "traveling" closer to the sun. Two weeks from full moon (day may vary) look for the sliver of the moon just before sunset.  As the moon moves into NEW moon and you cannot see at all, watch for it to become noticable as a sliver in the other direction asa the sun sets. Follow the light on the moon as it expands to first quarter and then to full. So you can actually see the moon and the sun at the same time virtually most of the month.
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The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air. \n\nHowever, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. \nOn Earth, the sun appears yellow. If you were out in space, or on the moon, the sun would look white. In space, there is no atmosphere to scatter the sun's light. On Earth, some of the shorter wavelength light (the blues and violets) are removed from the direct rays of the sun by scattering. The remaining colors together appear yellow. \n\nAs the sun begins to set, the light must travel farther through the atmosphere before it gets to you. More of the light is reflected and scattered. As less reaches you directly, the sun appears less bright. The color of the sun itself appears to change, first to orange and then to red. This is because even more of the short wavelength blues and greens are now scattered. Only the longer wavelengths are left in the direct beam that reaches your eyes.
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As the Moon moves along its orbit around the Earth its hemisphere toward the sun is fully illuminated.\n\nBut from the Earth we see only the hemisphere that is turned toward us.\n\nThat is, we are not seeing that hemisphere which is fully illuminated by the Sun.\n\nThat is why we see different shapes which are called phases of the moon.\n\nIn new moon day, the moon is in between Sun and Earth, and the moon’s non illuminated hemisphere is toward Earth and in the back ground of Sun’s bright light, the moon is invisible.\n\nWhen Moon is at 90 degree from the Sun, half of the illuminated hemisphere of Moon is visible from Earth. \n \nWhen Moon is at 180 degree from the Sun, full of the illuminated hemisphere of Moon is visible from Earth. We call it as Full Moon.
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New Moon - The Moon's unilluminated side is facing the Earth. The Moon is not visible (except during a solar eclipse).\nWaxing Crescent - The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\nFirst Quarter - One-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\nWaxing Gibbous - The Moon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\nFull Moon - The Moon's illuminated side is facing the Earth. The Moon appears to be completely illuminated by direct sunlight.\nWaning Gibbous - The Moon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\nLast Quarter - One-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\nWaning Crescent - The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\nalso go to \nhttp://tm.ask.com/r?t=an&s=a&uid=09220EDD36C718A34&sid=144454D585BB38B34&o=0&qid=0F1134A30408E249734C01A371E2BB7D&io=0&sv=0a300524&ask=moon+phases&uip=480e4587&en=te&eo=1&pt=Moon%20Phases&ac=6&qs=1&pg=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Faa.usno.navy.mil%2Ffaq%2Fdocs%2Fmoon_phases.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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it's because they use the moon to navigate.  artificial light confuses them.
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what? I don't think the moon appears stationary since it travels across the sky and goes through phases.\nWhat?
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no it is a reflection of the suns light.  That is why you can still see the moon during the day soemtimes.  It is still getting light from the sun.
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When the light from the sun hits the earth some of the light (The higher frequency or blue light) gets trapped or rather scattered by the smaller molecules in the atmosphere.  This scattering makes the sky blue because these particles reflect this blue light.\nAt night the light we are seeing is  the light of  the sun reflected off of the moon and it is much less intense.
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That's not the earth's shadow.  That only happens during a lunar eclipse.  What you are seeing is the different phases of the moon.