Belt of Venus

Lovely belt of venus this evening

Lovely image Conor!!!!

Thanks Martin

It's a very nice Image Conor but I have no idea what a "belt of Venus" is, any chance you could exaplain and perhaps also mark it on the image for people like me who are obvioulsy not as informed as we should be

Bart.

You can see in the image above the horzion a red then blue band. This is called the belt of venus. It appears directly opposite where the sun is setting and only becomes visible when the sun is near or below the horizon. The band is actually earths shadow to which the sun cant get it

You can see in the image above the horzion a red then blue band. This is called the belt of venus. It appears directly opposite where the sun is setting and only becomes visible when the sun is near or below the horizon. The band is actually earths shadow to which the sun cant get it

Oh, so that's what causes that!

Cool, cheers for that!

Any ideas where the name comes from? Seems like an odd thing to call it!