Comparison of the zodiacal emission at 1.25 μm. For a random subset of the pointings in the reference survey, we show results from the conservative basic model (red triangles) and the estimates by the more complex model (blue diamonds). The latter (Maris et al. 2016) depends on the observation time and angular direction, and it no longer has cylindrical symmetry. This causes the scatter in the blue points. The EuclidYJH bands show a similar behaviour.