by APOD Robot » Thu Jul 05, 2018 4:05 am
Shadow Rise on the Inside Passage
Explanation: At sunset look east not west.
As Earth's dark shadow rises from the eastern horizon, faint and subtle colors will appear opposite the setting Sun. This beautiful evening sea and skyscape records the reflective scene from a cruise on the well-traveled Alaskan
Inside Passage in the Pacific Northwest. Along the horizon the fading sunset gives way to the the pinkish anti-twilight arch, more poetically known as
the Belt of Venus. Often
overlooked at sunset in favor of the brighter western horizon, the lovely arch is tinted by filtered sunlight backscattered in the dense atmosphere, hugging the
planet's rising blue-grey shadow.
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