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HIPO Instrument

HIPO Instrument

Date: 
3/21/2014

The High Speed Imaging Photometer for Occultations (HIPO) was, as its name implies, developed for observing stellar occultations – when an object passes in front of a distant star and its shadow is observable from Earth. HIPO recorded SOFIA's first Pluto Occultation on June 22/23, 2011. The instrument collects data from 0.3 to 1.1 microns and can be co-mounted with the FLITECAM instrument. A team from the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., developed HIPO.

Credit: 
NASA/SOFIA
Image Number: 
OBS_0013
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  • NASA
  • DLR
  • USRA
  • DSI
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Rob Landis
NASA
Project Manager

Naseem Rangwala
NASA
Project Scientist

Margaret Meixner, USRA
Science Mission Operations Director