2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11290We investigated the potential of using DENIS for studies of galaxies behind the obscuration layer of our Milky Way, and mapping the Galactic extinction. As a pilot study, we examined DENIS I-, J-, and K-band images of heavily obscured galaxies from a deep optical (B_J-band) galaxy survey in the Zone of Avoidance. We tried to uncover additional galaxies at latitudes where the Milky Way remains fully opaque, i.e. we conducted a `blind' search at |b| < 5deg and A_B > 4-5 mag. Furthermore, we determined the I, J and K magnitudes of galaxies in the low-latitude, nearby, rich cluster Abell 3627 and compared the resulting colour-colour diagram with that of an unobscured cluster.Contributed talk, XXXIInd Moriond Meeting (les Arcs, France, March 1997) on "Extragalactic Astronomy in the Infrared". 6 pages, LateX, format file plus 5 ps-figures included. Fig 1 & 3 also available as better resolved gif-filesAstrophysicstext