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THE hour after sunset is possibly the time most often chosen by many for noticing the bright planets, chiefly because Venus and Mercury scarcely let us notice them at any other time, except by insisting on inconvenient wakefulness before sunrise.
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WALKDEN, S. Planetary Positions at Sunset in 1937. Nature 139, 471–472 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139471b0
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