On the Pacific Ocean horizon, over the marine cloud layer, the belt of Venus casts a lovely pink glow as the Sun rises over the eastern hills.

As the Sun rises in the east or sets in the west, sunlight reflects off the dense atmosphere in an effect called backscattering, which creates a pink band of light on the opposite horizon to the Sun, above the antisolar point. This pink band is the Belt of Venus.

The Belt of Venus gets its name from the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite. She was usually depicted wearing a belt or breast band. Her Roman counterpart was Venus, thus giving us the name Belt of Venus. Note that Venus never gets far from the sun in the sky, and we either see it for a short time after sunset or a short time before sunrise. As a result, it is impossible to see the planet Venus in the Belt of Venus.

Nikon. 8mm fish eye. I pointed the lens down to get a crescent shape, a bulging horizon perspective. The colors are true, as I saw from the scene this morning. The cobalt blue band around the image is an artifact of the fish eye lens when set at its widest angle 8mm.

crop sides, enhance in Franzis 4 Pro