Johnson, Gaylord · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 155
^oNSfcT EARTH sufiffi^g 140 THE SKY MOVIES When Venus is at the left of the dotted Hne join-ing the earth and the sun, she is seen in the West atsunset as an evening star. When approachinginferior conjunction she is very bright and showsa crescent through a telescope like this: … Photograph taken by E. E. Barnard, of theYerkes Observatory, with the Bruce tele-scope. But when Venus has passed to the right of theline, past inferior conjunction, she is seen in theEast before sunrise as a morning star.
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