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THE FULL moon brightly illuminated the warm summer evening until the great shadow of the Earth began to swallow it up in a total lunar eclipse.
The bright monochromatic landscape washed out into almost total darkness as the Earth's shadow covered the moon, leaving only a dull red surface.
The redness of the moon is caused by the way red light refracts better around Earth's atmosphere than the higher frequency colours (greens, blues, violets). Some of this refracting light reaches the moon giving its rather eerie red colour.
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