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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}}

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|Description={{en|[[w:Percival Lowell|Percival Lowell]] observing [[w:Venus|Venus]] in the daytime from the observer's chair of the 24-inch (61 cm) [[W:Alvan Clark & Sons|Alvan Clark & Sons]] refracting telescope, installed in the summer of 1896 at the [[w:Lowell Observatory|Lowell Observatory]], which 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 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 circa 1910.}}

|Description={{en|[[w:Percival Lowell|Percival Lowell]] observing [[w:Venus|Venus]] in the daytime from the observer's chair of the 24-inch (61 cm) [[W:Alvan Clark & Sons|Alvan Clark & Sons]] refracting telescope, installed in the summer of 1896 at the [[w:Lowell Observatory|Lowell Observatory]], which 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 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 circa 1910.}}

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