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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.FOREGROUNDS

2.1.Terrestrial Airglow and Extinction

2.2.Zodiacal Light (ZL)

2.3.Discrete Stars and Diffuse Galactic Light (DGL)

3.FIELD SELECTION AND HST SCHEDULING

4.HST/WFPC2 DATA

4.1.Observations

4.2.Basic Data Reduction and Calibration

4.2.1.Pipeline

4.2.2.Subtraction of Dark Backgrounds

4.2.3.Charge Transfer Efficiency (CTE)

4.2.4.Cosmic Ray Detection

4.2.5.Flux Calibration

4.3.Combined Images

4.4.Resolved Objects

4.5.On-Axis Scattered Light

5.HST/WFPC2 TOTAL MEASURED BACKGROUND

6.HST/FOS OBSERVATIONS AND DATA REDUCTION

6.1.Dark Subtraction

6.2.Flux Calibration

7.HST/FOS: RESULTS

8.DIFFUSE GALACTIC LIGHT (DGL)

8.1.Structured Component

8.2.Isotropic Component

9.MEASUREMENT OF ZODIACAL LIGHT

10.EBL FROM RESOLVED SOURCES IN WFPC2 IMAGES

10.1.Ensemble Photometry

10.2.Discussion: Minimum EBL23

11.EBL DETECTIONS

12.SUMMARY

13.APPENDIX

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