Consequently, we see more of the long wavelengths—red, orange, yellow—at dawn and dusk, when light makes the longest transit through the atmosphere. Immediately after the sun drops below the horizon ...

Butthis month, moon lovers should rise at dawn instead, and search for the"oldmoon" just before it passes into the sun's glare and is ... of first magnitude stars, red Betelgeuse andwhiteRigel ...