zodiacal light in English
noun
1
a faint elongated cone of light sometimes seen in the night sky, extending from the horizon along the ecliptic. It is thought to be due to the reflection of sunlight from particles of ice and dust within the plane of the solar system.
Again, don't bother to look for the zodiacal light or counterglow in the confines of a city or the suburbs.
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1. The first, the zodiacal dust cloud, lies in the inner Solar System and causes the zodiacal light.
2. The amount of airglow and zodiacal light is quite variable (depending, amongst other things on sunspot activity and the Solar cycle) but given optimal conditions the darkest possible sky has a brightness of about 22 magnitude/square arcsecond.