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Perception visual range and sky background

A.W. Harrison Department of Physics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
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L.B. Murdock Department of Physics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Pages 116-128 | Received 30 Jun 1981, Published online: 15 Nov 2010

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