Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Thu Jul 05 2018 10:18:05 APOD: 2018 July 5 - Shadow Rise on the Inside Passage Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 July 5 [2] 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] . Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space [10] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [11] | Archive [12] | Submissions [13] | Index [14] | Search [15] | Calendar [16] | RSS [17] | Education [18] | About APOD [19] | Discuss [20] | > [21] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [22] (MTU [23] ) & Jerry Bonnell [24] (UMCP [25] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [26] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [27] A service of: ASD [28] at NASA [29] / GSFC [30] & Michigan Tech. U. [31] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1807/BeltofVenus062718_Cullen.jpeg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] http://www.stevecullenmedia.com/about/ [5] ap170414.html [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Passage [7] ap060615.html [8] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/ student-made-mars-rover-concepts-lift-off [9] https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/earshad.htm [10] ap180706.html [11] ap180704.html [12] archivepix.html [13] lib/apsubmit2015.html [14] lib/aptree.html [15] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [16] calendar/allyears.html [17] /apod.rss [18] lib/edlinks.html [19] lib/about_apod.html [20] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180705 [21] ap180706.html [22] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [23] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [24] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [25] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [26] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [27] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [28] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [29] https://www.nasa.gov/ [30] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [31] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .