{"id":462686,"date":"2026-03-07T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:15:07","slug":"your-pictures-spectacular-orange-moons-in-the-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462686\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Pictures: Spectacular orange moons in the North East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A magnificent full moon with an orange tint was photographed by locals in north-east England this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior weather presenter Paul Mooney said the satellite&#8217;s tint could be explained in part by the fact it was near to the horizon meaning light reflecting off the moon passed through more of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;More of the shorter wavelengths of visible light are scattered by the atmosphere and what we observe are the longer wavelengths which are red,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luckily if you missed the spectacle, the BBC&#8217;s Weather Watchers were on hand to capture some glorious snaps. We picked some of our favourites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnificent full moon with an orange tint was photographed by locals in north-east England this week. Senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462686","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=462686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}