When Venus begins to cross the Sun's disc, it looks smeared not circular.
It seems from the passage that circular and smeared should have opposite meanings but it isn't according to the meaning of smeared on dictionary. Would you please explaint the meaning of "smeared"?
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It may be referring to this: