Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Counterglow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Counter \Coun"ter\, n.
{Over the counter} (Stock Exchanges), in an office; -- said
of business so done, as distinguished from that done at an
exchange. [Cant] Counterglow \Coun"ter*glow`\, n.
(Astron.)
An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous
light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen
during September and October, when in the constellations
Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood.
Called also {Gegenschein}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
counterglow
n : a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly
opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of
sunlight by micrometeoric material in space [syn: {gegenschein}]
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