Year: 
1961

Venus on 1961 April 9 at 11:00-11:10 local time (16:05 UT) as sketched by G. Gaherty. 8" reflector at 90x. Seeing 2. Transparency 4-5. Illuminated atmosphere as hair-line all around disk. k = 1.5 (27 hours from inferior conjunction).

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