Sunset Reflections.

Some strange phenomena appear at this time - like the so-called "belt of Venus" that you have captured just beginning to develop, where a pink/orange glow goes all round the horizon through 360 degrees. The reflected last light of the sun in those windows is a bonus.

This is pollution, or so I am very reliably informed! It is because of the easterly winds we have been experiencing, is blowing all the crap over from the continent... and you know what? I can believe it!!

In the last few weeks I have been shooting deep sky stuff, and none of it is usable!! I even did one shoot, with my 5D on a telescope with 5 minute exposures. Once stacked, the target was so faint you could just about make it out! When it should have been visible! Plus over Monday and Tuesday night I shot the another deep sky target. This one came out but it had no definition! It had over 12 hours of data collected so it should have been epic, but it wasn't!! Which was really annoying!

All that time wasted because of smog!!

"belt of Venus"

Didn't know that, interesting. Thank you David.

Spad, I can believe it about the Easterlies as I have noticed over these many weeks, at a lower level the slight haze that's been fairly persistent. Normally down this neck of the woods we get predominantly westerly/south west winds (and I like to believe clean fresh air off the Atlantic), and any haze is less frequent, certainly on windy days.

Thanks for the comments BTW.