More on the lunar eclipse. Vox quite poetically explains the blood-red color which the moon casts off when in Earth’s shadow:
“A total lunar eclipse is like projecting all the sunsets and sunrises onto the moon.”
This is because the atmosphere at the edges of Earth’s shadow (i.e., sunsets on one side, sunrises on the other) scatters spectum blue light, allowing only red, orange, and yellow wavelengths to pass through. The resulting filtered light bends and subsequently is reflected from the moon.
This is an informative article for selenophilic Kumamotoites. - William