Dec 1887
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1887natur..37q.151g&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 37, Issue 946, pp. 151 (1887).
Physics
Scientific paper
THE atmosphere in this country is generally so unfavourable that it is a very rare occurrence to see the planet Mercury even at its greatest elongation from the sun, unless carefully looked for. My experience of the last few days may therefore be worth mentioning. The day before yesterday, at 10 minutes past 7 in the morning, I was in bed at some distance from a window, through which, without directing my attention to it, I saw a star shining with sufficient brightness in the twilight to attract my notice. I raised the window and made use of a large opera-glass, when any doubt I had would have been dispelled even if I had had no previous experience of Mercury, for there was to be seen a small planet with distinct disk some 15° above the horizon-Venus, a magnificent object, being of course visible also. The same thing happened this morning, when I again noticed Mercury, without having him in my mind, before leaving my bed; but this time I was better prepared, and in the course of the next quarter of an hour had shown the planet, in a 3¾-inch telescope, to several persons who saw it for the first time.
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