The Moon In The UK 10:30pm Friday 25th

[All Seeing Eye]

I finished work last night at 10:30 and on my way home I saw the Moon and it was the weirdest looking I've ever seen it. It was a full moon but it was really really yellow and it honestly did no look real, it stood out a mile and looked sort of fake in the sky if you know what I mean.

I got home and went on the net for an hour and my home page is BBC news and there was an article saying that there will be a lunar eclipse on Saturday the 26th in the USA and that it will cause some kind of magnification illusion or some such.

Does this lunar eclipse in the US have any correlation to what I saw?
I don't see how it can possibly have any correlation seeing as it was the night before an eclipse and the eclipse is in the US and not the UK.

So does anyone have any ideas about what I saw?

On another message board someone posted a thread about seeing the same thing as me but they're down in Australia.

So something went weird with the Moon last night but what could possibly have caused it?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Well, as referred to above, the Moon has been doing this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10414201.stm

A partial lunar eclipse now under way should appear magnified to viewers in North America by an effect known as the "moon illusion".

The eclipse began at 1017 GMT, when the Moon entered the shadow of Earth, and is due to last around three hours.

Usually, though, the yellowness of the moon may be due to dust particles in the atmosphere in certain places, as this passage notes:

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/918653236.As.r.html

The reason for this is due to the Earth's atmosphere. The gasses in this are clear and colourless, but air contains many tiny specks of dust. We don't normally notice these, but when the sun or Moon are near the horizon, the light has to pass through a very wide path through the atmosphere. The nature of the dust particles causes blue light to be scattered away sideways, and lets the red light get through, so we see a more Orangey-red colour.

 

[scnj]

I saw it at 9:30pm and it looked huge.

 

[Trekker4747]

I finished work last night at 10:30 and on my way home I saw the Moon and it was the weirdest looking I've ever seen it. It was a full moon but it was really really yellow and it honestly did no look real, it stood out a mile and looked sort of fake in the sky if you know what I mean.

I got home and went on the net for an hour and my home page is BBC news and there was an article saying that there will be a lunar eclipse on Saturday the 26th in the USA and that it will cause some kind of magnification illusion or some such.

Does this lunar eclipse in the US have any correlation to what I saw?
I don't see how it can possibly have any correlation seeing as it was the night before an eclipse and the eclipse is in the US and not the UK.

So does anyone have any ideas about what I saw?

On another message board someone posted a thread about seeing the same thing as me but they're down in Australia.

So something went weird with the Moon last night but what could possibly have caused it?

.... You've never seen a Harvest Moon?