COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Very early Tuesday morning, southern Colorado will experience a total lunar eclipse. It begins at 1:44 a.m. and will reach totality at 4:33 a.m. The eclipse will end at 6:17 a.m.
This eclipse is special too; it’s a blood worm moon. It’s called a worm moon because it’s the month of march, and the moon this time of year is always called that as the earth thaws and things start to come back to life again. It’s called a blood moon because of it’s red hue it will get from different wavelengths of light scattering.
“Rayleigh scattering is where the shorter wavelengths of light, the blues and the greens and the yellows, those collide with the molecules in our atmosphere to scatter the light. So, the longer wavelengths of red lights are able to come through the atmosphere to get to our eyes,” Dave Warner with the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society told 11 News…