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Barentine, John C.

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venusinvestigating a 400-year-old phenomenon /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venusby John C. Barentine.
Reminder of title:	investigating a 400-year-old phenomenon /
Author:	Barentine, John C.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	xvi, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Popular Science in Astronomy.
Subject:	Venus (Planet)
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72715-4
ISBN:	9783030727154$q(electronic bk.)

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venusinvestigating a 400-year-old phenomenon /
Barentine, John C.

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venusinvestigating a 400-year-old phenomenon /[electronic resource] :by John C. Barentine. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xvi, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Astronomers' universe,2197-6651. - Astronomers' universe..

The "Ashen Light" of Venus--a ghostly emission of light from the night side of our nearest planetary neighbor--is among the last unsolved mysteries of astronomical history. In the four centuries since the phenomenon was first reported, highly reputable visual observers of Venus have recorded seeing the Ashen Light, while others have spent a lifetime searching for it without once being convinced that they ever saw it. Is the Ashen Light a trick of the eye? The result of a defective lens? A real scientific event? Occasional references to the Ashen Light are scattered across the literature, yet no work to date has synthesized these records. This book therefore digs deep into the history of the mystery and our latest attempts to understand it, sifting through the clues that might explain whether it is caused by physics, is conjured up by the eye or brain, or a combination of both. This baffling story will appeal to amateur astronomers, hobbyists, and lay readers interested in joining the debate about one of the most elusive observable phenomena ever recorded in the night sky.

ISBN: 9783030727154$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-72715-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

273868
Popular Science in Astronomy.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

325472
Venus (Planet)

LC Class. No.: QB621

Dewey Class. No.: 523.422

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