I am wondering what members have to say about John King's "vision" just before daybreak on about June 21st 1861, which was recorded by Wills a few days before he died: "A moon in the east with a haze of light streching up from it ... (Wills thought) it must have been Venus in the Zodical light that he saw, with a corona around her."

Astronomical software I have used appears to indicate that Venus was below the sunrise horizon and the moon was in the west.

So what was it?

Regards,

Bill Chalker
www.theozfiles.blogspot.com