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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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CORNISH, V. The Gegenschein Observed at Sea. Nature 137, 778 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137778a0
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