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MR. ROYSTON-PIGOTT'S letter in NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 77, reminds me that during the Transit of Venus in 1874, the sky here for the greater part of the day, being covered with thick but varying clouds, I several times, for a considerable time together, saw the planet on the sun's disk, with the naked eye; the cloud at these times stopping out the superfluous light, but not stopping distinct vision.
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ATKINSON, A. “Telescopic Definition in a Hazy Sky”. Nature 25, 483 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025483e0
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