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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 for the image attribution being [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=35oNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22percival+lowell%22+%22observing+venus%22&dq=%22percival+lowell%22+%22observing+venus%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w3dCUcKtCcWp4AOOq4GoDA&redir_esc=y ''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 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JAHLNT9G-7IC&pg=PA36&dq=lowell+observatory+history+venus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hWlCUbfOKNKp4AOyjIBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=lowell%20observatory%20history%20venus&f=false ''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)]. 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.}}

|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 for the image attribution being [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=35oNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22percival+lowell%22+%22observing+venus%22&dq=%22percival+lowell%22+%22observing+venus%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w3dCUcKtCcWp4AOOq4GoDA&redir_esc=y ''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 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JAHLNT9G-7IC&pg=PA36&dq=lowell+observatory+history+venus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hWlCUbfOKNKp4AOyjIBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=lowell%20observatory%20history%20venus&f=false ''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)]. 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.}}

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