            APOD: 2018 July 5 - Shadow Rise on the Inside Passage

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                                  2018 July 5
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                      Shadow Rise on the Inside Passage
                Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Steve Cullen [4]

Explanation: At sunset look east not west. As Earth's dark shadow rises [5]
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 [6] 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 [7] .
Often overlooked [8] 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 [9] .

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