The phrase "distant background" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is far away or not immediately visible in the context of a scene or situation.
Example: "In the painting, the mountains loomed in the distant background, adding depth to the landscape."
Alternatives: "far-off background" or "remote background."
Tallis's words hover, unvoiced, in the distant background to the Fantasia.
"They see history like a peepshow, with two-dimensional figures against a distant background".
It is observed with respect to a framework of very distant background stars or galaxies.
The president's pollsters, Jan van Lohuizen and Fred Steeper, are kept in a secure location -- the very distant background.
Mostly, they got a close-up look at two contenders who are in the distant background in the race.
Toward the end the A takes a distant background as an intermittent hum, a bit of pure digital voltage.
Chapter 6 argues that some birds such as the ruffed grouse have patterns designed as camouflage against distant backgrounds, with a painting of a bird against a forest background as evidence.
Unfortunately, because it darkens the viewfinder, it's very difficult to gauge your depth of field this way (though it might give you some indication of how far out-of-focus distant backgrounds are, which is not the same thing).
The annual parallax is the tiny back-and-forth shift in the direction of a relatively nearby star, with respect to more-distant background stars, caused by the fact that Earth changes its vantage point over the course of a year.
The threshold with the most similar (least-distant) background frequency (random occurrence) to the user-defined frequency in the user-defined type of sequence is set as optimal.
1983's Vigilante places them in the remote background behind an abandoned, graffiti-covered school, like the spires of a distant civilization, or the Emerald City.
