October 14, 2012 (v1)
Conference paper
During the Venus transit in 2004 several observers collected data useful to the characterization of the mesosphere of the planet, by observing the solar light refracted at the corresponding altitude range. The "aureole" thus formed, is observable during the ingress and egress phases of the transit, when Venus is crossing the solar limb. For the...
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