By some reckonings, last night's full Moon was a Blue Moon. The moonrise over Korinthos, Greece however, had a distinctly different hue:

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© Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos
"The orange Moon rising over the Saronic Gulf near Korintthos was a beautiful sight," says Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, who took the picture using a Canon EOS 450D.

Blue Moons are creatures of folklore, having little to do with actual color. A true-blue moon is a rare sight indeed. Orange moons, on the other hand, are commonplace. Scattering of moonlight by aerosols and air molecules gives the moon an orange tint via the same physics that colors sunsets.

So, actually, that was an ordinary moonrise over Greece. Not bad. Browse the links below for more "ordinary" moons from the weekend of Nov. 20-21.

More images: from Louis Suarato of Catskill Mountains, NY; from P. Nikolakakos of Sparta Greece; from Jin Lu of Tempe, AZ; from Lauri Kangas of Caledon, Ontario, Canada; from Peter Barvoets of Schenectady. NY; from Pete Griffith of Newport, UK