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THE GREATEST BRILLIANCY OF VENUS.—Dr. G. Müller,. whose work on the brightness of the major and some of the minor planets we referred to in this column two weeks ago (p. 15) contributes to Astronomischen Nachrichten, No. 3162, some interesting results with reference to the greatest brilliancy of Venus. That this planet does not appear brightest at the time of conjunction, but some days before or after, has been shown by the work of Halley, Lambert, &c, and the values, as obtained from their formulæ, are:—
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 48, 61–62 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048061b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048061b0