I think you are right, light is bent around the earth, through the Earth's atmosphere. Some of this reaches the moon, even though the moon is in the center of the Earth's shadow.

That is why, sometimes an eclipsed moon will look reddish, especially if there has been a recent large volcanic eruption on earth that threw a lot of material into the upper atmosphere.

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