gegenschein

English

Alternative forms

• Gegenschein

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gegenschein (“counter-shine”), from gegen- +‎ Schein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪ.ɡənˌʃaɪn/

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Noun

gegenschein (countable and uncountable, plural gegenscheins)

1. (astronomy) A faint brightening of the night sky in the region of the ecliptic directly opposite the Sun.
   • 1860, George Jones, “Recent Observations, by various persons, on the Gegenschein, or Completed Arch of the Zodiacal Light”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 13‎^[1], Digitized edition, published 2007, page 172:

     My object in appearing before the Association, at this time, is to present the observations of several other persons on the gegenschein or completed arch of the zodiacal light, of which I have received accounts since our meeting in Motreal.

   • 2001 Feb, John E. Bortle, “Introducing the Bortle Dark-sky Scale”, in Sky and Telescope, volume 101, number 2, page 126:

     The zodiacal light, gegenschein, and zodiacal band … are all visible.

Synonyms

• counterglow

Translations

Translations

• Belarusian: проціззянне (prócizzjannje)
• Chinese: 对日照 (zh) (duìrìzhào)
• Czech: protisvit
• Danish: gegenschein
• Finnish: gegenschein
• French: gegenschein m, lueur anti-solaire f
• Galician: gegenschein (gl) f
• Greek: αντιζωδιακό φως (antizodiakó fos)
• Italian: gegenschein (it)
• Japanese: 対日照 (ja)
• Korean: 대일조 (daeiljo)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: gegenschein

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} پادتاب (fa)
• Polish: przeciwblask
• Portuguese: gegenschein
• Russian: противосияние (ru) (protivosijanije)
• Spanish: gegenschein
• Ukrainian: протисяйво (protysjajvo)

See also

• Kordylewski cloud
• zodiacal light