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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5380. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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A faint cone-shaped glow in the night sky stretching along the ecliptic, alternatively known as the counterglow or gegenschein. Given a dark sky and the absence of moonlight, it is visible at all times from the tropics. From temperate latitudes it is best seen about an hour and a half before sunrise in the fall or the same time after sunset in the spring, for at these times the ecliptic makes its...

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