I was browsing through some recent photographs I had taken, and found this one of the Moon rising over Meadowcreek Park Observatory. Notice the pinkish haze near the horizon? That is called the Belt of Venus. This view is looking east, as the Moon is rising. The Sun is setting in the west. As the Sun sinks lower below the horizon in the west, Earth's shadow rises higher in the east. The Belt of Venus is a band of pink between the sky and Earth's shadow seen above the eastern horizon during and just after sunset.