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We present a progress report on our program to determine the opacity of spiral disks directly, rather than statistically, by imaging foreground spirals partially projected against background galaxies. The non-overlapping regions of partially overlapping galaxies can be used to reconstruct, using purely differential photometry, how much light from the background galaxy is lost in passing through the foreground galaxy in the overlap region.
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White, R.E., Keel, W.C., Conselice, C.J. (1996). Distribution and Content of Dust in Overlapping Galaxy Systems. In: Block, D.L., Greenberg, J.M. (eds) New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0335-7_13
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