The Gegenschein Observed at Sea

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May 1936

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Nature, Volume 137, Issue 3471, pp. 778 (1936).

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ON March 14, during a cruise on board R.M.S. Almanzora, I saw the Zodiacal Light strongly in the west when off the coast of Portugal in lat. 32° 30' N. The season being favourable, I hoped to see the Gegenschein, or counterglow, which I had never observed. Realising the importance of unbiased vision in localising a faint luminosity, I was careful not to ascertain beforehand the distance of the sun below the horizon. Thus I did not know whether the sun's antipode was in Virgo or in Leo. I was also unaware which stars in these constellations lay upon the line of the ecliptic.

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