Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus
Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon
Series: Astronomers' Universe;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2021
- Publisher Springer International Publishing
- Date of Publication 8 September 2021
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783030727147
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages257 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 521 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XVI, 257 p. 49 illus., 18 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white 194
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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.
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Chapter 1. Prologue: The Martians that never were.- Chapter 2. “I could see the dark part of Venus...”.- Chapter 3. First Light: Early accounts of the Ashen Light 1643–1800.- Chapter 4. Going mainstream: A scientific approach c. 1800–1900.- Chapter 5. What is the light? Historical explanations of the Ashen Light.- Chapter 6. Venus as a knowable world: Chasing the Ashen Light into the Space Age 1900–1980.- Chapter 7. New ideas for an old problem: Observations and science 1980–2020.- Chapter 8. Seeing what we want to see: The psychology of the Ashen Light.- Chapter 9. Perception revisited: The psychophysics of the Ashen Light.- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Evanescence and evasion.
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