Mysterious observation of moon (sun?)
04/23/2014
A year or so ago, a friend called to ask me to step outside and look at the strange color of the full moon. What I and others observed was intuitively strange, but I didn't realize how strange until a few days later when I was puzzling about the experience. What we observed had seemed to be a full moon of a deep orange color setting in the west. The unusual color was the focus of interest at the time. Only when I was recalling the experience did it strike me that the time of observation was a little before 10 P.M. The sun had set around 8 P.M. and it was already dark. A full moon should have been rising in the east, not setting in the west at that hour. My thought is that it must have been an optical anomaly of some sort such that the image was of the sun and not of the moon.
My location is in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and the season was summertime. Can anyone offer a thought on this matter?