Venus at first internal contact with the Sun J. Lyons and Co 16th May 1968

16th May 1968

View of Elizabeth Powis

3rd February 1983

Actress Prunella Scales will be starring in the play

Venus at first internal contact with the Sun J. Lyons and Co 16th May 1968View taken at Mageroya, Nordkapp, Norway, during the 1769 Transit of Venus. Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact by Wiliam Bayley.' Published as plate 13 for the paper 'Astronomical observations, made at the North Cape, for the Royal Society', by William Bayly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59, 1769, pp. 262 272. William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at