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DescriptionPercival Lowell observing Venus from the Lowell Observatory in 1914.jpg |
English: Percival Lowell observing Venus in the daytime from the observer's chair of the 24-inch (61 cm) Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope, installed in the summer of 1896 at the Lowell Observatory, which he established in Flagstaff, Arizona (USA). Although known for observing Mars, this image has a long running attribution of "Percival Lowell observing the planet Venus in the daytime",[1] something he did from 1896 onward, observing the planet high in the daytime sky with the telescope's lens stopped down to 3 inches in diameter. This image of an older Lowell was taken in 1914.[2] Also given a date of October 17, 1914.[3] |
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- ↑ Sources for the image attribution being Our Wonderful Universe: An easy introduction to the study of the heavens by Clarence Augustus Chant, published by G.G. Harrap & Company Ltd. in 1928 (see page 92), and A Passion for the Planets: Envisioning Other Worlds, from the Pleistocene to the Age of the Telescope by William Sheehan, published by Springer in 2010 (see page 35).
- ↑ Per User:nagualdesign, date "1914" confirmed by Lowell Observatory Archives, holder of the original glass plate.
- ↑ Popular Astronomy , Volume 29; Volume 1921, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1921, Percival Lowell, "An Afterglow" book review, page 597
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03:49, 14 March 2013 | 800 × 1,000 (641 KB) | Nagualdesign | Better version. Cleaned and recoloured. | ||
21:42, 26 January 2005 | 400 × 501 (38 KB) | Ranveig | PD because of age. {{PD}} en:Image:Percival Lowell.observing Mars from the Lowell Observatory.jpg |
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