Smoke gets in our “eyes”

Smoke-Tinted Moon. July 18, 2021. Photo by James Guilford

Although high in the night’s sky, our waxing Gibbous Moon has been decidedly orange. Smoke, high in the atmosphere from North American wildfires, has tinted what should be a bright white Moon in the colors of moonset. Ruddy or not, we love that we can see mountain peaks and crater edges peeking up from the darkness just left of the sunlight terminator line.

Image Credit: Environment and Climate Change Canada