@article{1439546,
      recid = {1439546},
      author = {Barentine, John C.},
      title = {Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus : investigating a  400-year-old phenomenon /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {The Ashen Light of Venus -- a ghostly emission of light  from the night side of our nearest planetary neighboris  among the last unsolved mysteries of astronomical history.  In the four centuries since the phenomenon was first  reported, highly reputable visual observers of Venus have  recorded seeing the Ashen Light, while others have spent a  lifetime searching for it without once being convinced that  they ever saw it. Is the Ashen Light a trick of the eye?  The result of a defective lens? A real scientific event?  Occasional references to the Ashen Light are scattered  across the literature, yet no work to date has synthesized  these records. This book therefore digs deep into the  history of the mystery and our latest attempts to  understand it, sifting through the clues that might explain  whether it is caused by physics, is conjured up by the eye  or brain, or a combination of both. This baffling story  will appeal to amateur astronomers, hobbyists, and lay  readers interested in joining the debate about one of the  most elusive observable phenomena ever recorded in the  night sky.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439546},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72715-4},
}