The light
The Belt of Venus
The Belt of Venus is the pink band above the eastern horizon after sunset, over the Earth's own shadow.
The dark band beneath it is the planet's own shadow rising into the atmosphere; both climb as the sun sinks.
Golden hour, the twilights and the moon, where you stand.
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The Belt of Venus, where you stand.
You stand at the middle of your horizon. The dots are the sun’s path today, warm where the light turns golden; the stage opens at eighteen minutes after sunset. Slide through the day, or drag the sky to turn it.
How Sol measures it.
Opposite the sun, the Earth's shadow rises up the eastern sky as the sun sets, a blue-grey band; above it the air still in sunlight scatters back the red that the long path has left, and that is the belt. It is easiest to see on a clear evening with an open eastern horizon, in the twenty minutes after sunset — turn your back on the colour everyone else is watching.
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