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Orbit and Phases of an Inferior Planet

Orbit and Phases of an Inferior Planet.jpg A Tubeless, or 'Aerial' TelescopeThumbnailsGreat Telescope of HeveliusA Tubeless, or 'Aerial' TelescopeThumbnailsGreat Telescope of HeveliusA Tubeless, or 'Aerial' TelescopeThumbnailsGreat Telescope of HeveliusA Tubeless, or 'Aerial' TelescopeThumbnailsGreat Telescope of HeveliusA Tubeless, or 'Aerial' TelescopeThumbnailsGreat Telescope of Hevelius

Corresponding views of the same situations of an Inferior Planet as seen from the Earth, showing consequent phases and alterations in apparent size.