Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light: Proceedings of the IAU-Colloquium No. 31, Heidelberg, June 1013, 1975 [Paperback]

Space observations of the zodiacal light.- Helios zodiacal light experiment.- Preliminary results of the helios a zodiacal light experiment.- Pioneer 10 observations of zodiacal light brightness near the ecliptic: Changes with heliocentric distance.- Star counts in the background sky observed from pioneer 10.- The S10 (V) unit of surface brightness.- Polarization of the zodiacal light: first results from skylab.- Photometry of the zodiacal light with the balloon  borne telescope thisbe.- OSO-5 Zodiacal Light Measurements 19691975.- Evidence for scattering particles in meteor streams.- The ultraviolet scattering efficiency of interplanetary dust grains.- Summary of observations of the solar corona/inner zodiacal light from Apollo 15, 16, and 17.- A temporal study of the radiance of the F-corona close to the sun.- Measurements of the T-corona from daily OSO=7 observations.- The thermal emission of the dust corona during the eclipse of June 30, 1973.- The color characteristics of the earth-moon libration clouds.- A search for forward scattering of sunlight from the lunar libration clouds.- Presemtation of Zodiacal Light instrument aboard the D2B astronomical satellite.- Visible and UV photometry of the gegenschein and the milky way.- Ground-based observations of the zodiacal light.- Polarimetry of the zodiacal light and milky way from Hawaii.- Scattering in the earth's atmosphere: Calculations for milky way and zodiacal light as extended sources.- Scattering layer of cosmic dust in the upper atmosphere.- Some formulae to interpret zodiacal light photopolarimetric data in the ecliptic from ground or space.- Discussion of the rocket photometry of the zodiacal light.- Consequences of the inclination of the zodiacal cloud on the ecliptic.- Method for the determination ofthe intensity of scattered sunlight per unit-volume of the interplanetary medium.- On the visibility of the libration clouds.- Scattering functions of dielectric and absorbing irregular particles.- The colC