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{{rename|1=Percival Lowell observing Venus from the Lowell Observatory in 1910.jpg|2=3|3=Earliest source(s) state that he was posing for this photo, and that the telescope was in position to observe Venus. |user=Nagualdesign}}

{{rename|1=Percival Lowell observing Venus from the Lowell Observatory in 1910.jpg|2=3|3=Earliest source(s) state that he was posing for this photo, and that the telescope was in position to observe Venus. |user=Nagualdesign}}

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|Description={{en|Percival Lowell observing in the daytime from the observer's chair of the 61-centimeter (24-inch) [[W:Alvan Clark & Sons|Alvan Clark & Sons]] refracting telescope he installed in the summer of 1896 at the observatory he established in Flagstaff, Arizona (USA). Although known for observing [[w:Mars|Mars]], this image has a long running attribution of "Percival Lowell observing the planet [[w:Venus|Venus]] in the daytime"sources being "Clarence Augustus Chant, Our wonderful universe: an easy introduction to the study of the heavens, G.G. Harrap & company ltd., 1928, page 92", "William Sheehan, A Passion for the Planets: Envisioning Other Worlds, from the Pleistocene to o the Age of the Telescope, Springer, 2010, page 35", 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 is given a general creation date of between 1908 and 1910.}}
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|Description={{en|Percival Lowell observing Venus in the daytime from the observer's chair of the 24-inch (61 cm) [[W:Alvan Clark & Sons|Alvan Clark & Sons]] refracting telescope, which he installed in the summer of 1896 at the observatory he established in Flagstaff, Arizona (USA). Although known for observing [[w:Mars|Mars]], this image has a long running attribution of "Percival Lowell observing the planet [[w:Venus|Venus]] in the daytime"sources being "Clarence Augustus Chant, Our wonderful universe: an easy introduction to the study of the heavens, G.G. Harrap & company ltd., 1928, page 92", "William Sheehan, A Passion for the Planets: Envisioning Other Worlds, from the Pleistocene to o the Age of the Telescope, Springer, 2010, page 35", 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 is given a creation date of 1910.}}
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|Source=Taken to [[en:Image:Percival Lowell.observing Mars from the Lowell Observatory.jpg]] on March 13, 2004 from [http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/mars/marsimg/mars_lowell.jpg]: [http://www.alma.nrao.edu NASM: Mars - Observation - Exploring the planets]
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|Source=Reconstructed from several online sources by [[User:nagualdesign|Joe Haythornthwaite]]
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|Author=unknown
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|Author=Unknown
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|Date=estimated 1908 to 1910
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|Date=c.1910

|Permission=PD because of age

|Permission=PD because of age

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