Replicating the discovery of Venus’s atmosphere

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I.N. Nesterenko · Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics

Randall Rosenfeld · Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

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The 2012 transit of Venus gave us a chance to reproduce Mikhail Lomonosov’s 1761 observation and demonstrate the excellent quality of 18th-century telescopes.

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History and Developments in Astronomy Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

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Published in: Physics Today

Volume 66, Issue 2, pp. 64-65

DOI: 10.1063/pt.3.1894

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Replicating the discovery of Venus’s atmosphere

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