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What a blue moon has to do with Texas!
Read full article: What a blue moon has to do with Texas!Today’s cover shot of the gold and blue moon is, like most blue moon pictures, filtered and photo-shopped. Supposedly, you can actually see a blue moon if the dust particles in the atmosphere are super small and blocking enough red light to allow just the blue light to scatter--but those are rare (For example, the moon appeared blue across the entire Earth for about two years after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 -- universetoday.com). I’ve never received an actual blue moon pic, but I get great Click2Pins of moons, like this waxing gibbous moon from last night: