Why does the moon sometimes go yellow?
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Whenever the moon is low in the sky, we see it through a thick atmosphere and that turns it red or yellow or orange, just like the setting sun," explained Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope.
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When the Moon is low in the sky, close to the horizon, it often looks yellowish – and sometimes even orange or red. The reason for this is that light travelling through air undergoes a process of scattering, in which particles (photons) of blue light are catapulted off in random directions more frequently than their red counterparts. When the Moon is low in the sky, its light passes through a thicker layer of atmosphere than when it’s overhead, so the scattering effect is very pronounced. The blue light having been removed, our lunar satellite can look decidedly yellow.
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