The Diffuse Ultraviolet Background Close to the Galactic Plane
  We have used Voyager and Galex observations to map the diffuse Galactic light
near the Galactic equator. We find that most of the observations are relatively
faint with surface brightnesses of less than 5,000 photon units. This is
important because many ultraviolet telescopes have not observed at low Galactic
latitudes because of the fear of a bright diffuse emission. Our data are
consistent with emission from interstellar dust grains with albedo ($a$) of 0.2
-- 0.3 and phase function ($g$) $ < 0.7$ at 1100 \AA; $0.2 < a < 0.5; g < 0.8$
at 1500 \AA; and $0.4 < a < 0.6; g < 0.4$ at 2300 \AA.
