Talk:Lunar Eclipse Dragon/@comment-107.3.158.105-20121122011952/@comment-5625240-20121122064952

The color is wrong, it shouldn't be black. The moon is black during a solar eclipse, but not during a lunar eclipse.

During a lunar eclipse the moon turns a rust/red (because the Earth is blacked out and the only illumination comes from a ring of all the world's sunrises and sunsets - pretty awesome when you think about it). In olden times some peoples thought it looked like a bloody red, which obviously would have scared them a bit...