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I RECENTLY presented new photoelectric measurements of the intensity and distribution of the diffuse galactic light for two sections of the Milky Way1, and attempted to interpret these data using a model for the radiative transfer of direct and scattered starlight in our galaxy originally developed by Henyey and Greenstein2. The aim was to derive scattering properties of interstellar particles.
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WITT, A. Interpretation of the Diffuse Galactic Light. Nature 220, 50–52 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220050a0
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