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Science 24 November 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3804, pp. 1045 - 1046
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3804.1045
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Optical Environment about the OGO-III Satellite

Charles Wolff 1

1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

An upper limit to the brightness of the daytime sky near a large unmanned satellite has been obtained; it is some 30 times less than the darkest daytime sky yet reported by an astronaut. However, there still remains the danger that this background light (less than 5 x 10-13 as bright as the sun) will interfere with observations of the solar corona and zodiacal light.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Airglow and Star Photographs in the Daytime from a Rocket.
D. C. Evans and L. Dunkelman (1969)
Science 164, 1391-1393
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