Friday, July 10, 2015

Share the occultation experience: see the movie!

We are busily crunching through lots of data, but in the meantime, enjoy this movie of the occultation event as seen with the HIPO camera aboard SOFIA.  The slight shakiness comes about because it was taken from an airplane barreling through the sky.  Watch carefully when the star is at its dimmest, and you can see that it brightens up a bit in the middle of the dimmest section; this is the central flash that we caught!


The data resolution has been intentionally reduced because, well, we're still working on the analysis.

Data from HIPO (red) aboard SOFIA
Program PI:  Dr. Michael Person (MIT)
HIPO PI:  Dr. Ted Dunham (Lowell)
Video by:  Luke Weisenbach (MIT)

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