A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 98
^ be seenshortly after sunset or before sunrise; it can never be seen at midnight or at any positionwhich would involve its being at any great distance from the Sun. … SATURN,1910 Photographed at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona Mercury (5) Mercury is even nearer the Sun than Venus; and while at times quite bright, it is soconstantly lost for us in the excessive light that the mere seeing of it is, for the amateurobserver, a real achievement. Copernicus…
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