{"id":2000104278,"date":"2026-03-05T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000104278"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:27:36","slug":"rare-blue-glow-spotted-on-moon-during-tuesdays-total-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rare-blue-glow-spotted-on-moon-during-tuesdays-total-lunar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare blue glow spotted on Moon during Tuesday\u2019s total lunar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While many photographers captured the darkened lunar surface, astrophotographer Mike Shaw of Arroyo Grande, California, revealed a rare phenomenon: a thin, bluish concentric band along the moon\u2019s edge during the partial phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaw\u2019s image, a high-dynamic-range blend of seven photographs taken between 12:30 and 6:30 a.m., shows both the central red shadow and the delicate blue band. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Instagram, he described the band as light passing through Earth\u2019s upper stratosphere, where ozone absorbs red light but allows blue light to shine, contrasting with the red-orange light filtered through the lower atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During totality, when the moon fully enters Earth\u2019s umbra, sunlight refracted through every sunrise and sunset on the planet illuminates the lunar surface, giving it the fiery hue. The blue band, visible just before and after totality, is far rarer and highlights the interaction of sunlight with the stratosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Forbes, Shaw carefully monitored weather and cloud cover in the days leading up to the eclipse, capturing the phenomenon without needing to travel far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe vivid, fiery red eclipsed moon appears suspended in space, and seems close enough you could pluck it out of the sky,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next total lunar eclipse visible globally is expected to occur on December 31, 2028, with another visible from North America on June 26, 2029. A partial eclipse on August 27, 2026, will also offer photographers a chance to capture the elusive blue band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A high-dynamic range blend of seven images of the “blood moon” total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026, from a scenic spot along California\u2019s Central Coast by astrophotographer Mike Shaw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A striking total lunar eclipse, known as a \u201cblood moon,\u201d lit up the skies over North America in the early hours of March 3, casting the moon in a deep red-orange glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000104279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000104278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000104279,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"A high-dynamic range blend of seven images of the \"blood moon\" total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026, from a scenic spot along California\u2019s Central Coast by astrophotographer Mike Shaw.","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":563,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moo.jpg","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moo.jpg","width":300,"height":169},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moo.jpg","width":768,"height":432},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moo.jpg","width":1000,"height":563},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/moo.jpg","width":1000,"height":563}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000104278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000104278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000104278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000104280,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000104278\/revisions\/2000104280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000104279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000104278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000104278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000104278"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000104278"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000104278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}