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The Opacity of Spiral Galaxies from Counts of Distant Background Galaxies

B. W. Holwerda, R. A. Gonzalez, R. J. Allen +1

We have applied the "Synthetic Field Method" on a sample of ~20 nearby galaxies in order to determine the opacity of their disks. We present preliminary results on the radial depen…