{"id":123369,"date":"2025-09-08T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123369\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:16:09","slug":"your-photos-blood-moon-captivates-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123369\/","title":{"rendered":"Your photos: Blood Moon captivates photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The West Midlands was treated to a phenomenon last night known as a Blood Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Sky-watchers across the region watched on and in many cases were able to photograph the total lunar eclipse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The striking visual was created as the moon passed through Earth&#8217;s shadow and resulted in something called &#8220;Rayleigh scattering&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">This is also what makes the sky blue and our sunsets red. It scatters more of the shorter blue wavelength light, allowing the longer red wavelength light to remain visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Midlands was treated to a phenomenon last night known as a Blood Moon. Sky-watchers across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-123369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}