Sentences with word «occulter»

The plan she is working on calls for a two - part instrument, a space telescope and an «external occulter,» a movable starshade that flies in front of the telescope to block out the starlight and bring the planet into view.
A too - small occulter could make sunlight bend right into the camera.
So telescopes have oversized occulters, blocking a disk with a radius about twice that of the sun.
Another type of starlight suppression instrument is called a starshade — a free - flying specially - shaped occulter that casts its shadow on a telescope many thousands of km away.
«The moon is about as perfect an occulter as one can get,» she said.
Using a disk called an occulter to block out the sun's brightness, space telescopes like NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory watch the outer corona all the time.
If the occulter were exactly the size of the sun in the telescope's view, any drift or jitter would let bright solar photons in.
The initial transit signal was identified in KELT - North survey data, and the planetary nature of the occulter was established using a combination of follow - up photometry, high - resolution imaging, high - resolution spectroscopy, and precise radial velocity measurements.
And then there's the New Worlds Mission — a mission to put an occulter into space (video above).
Dubbed Starshade, the occulter (essentially a big flying disc) would fly between the James Webb Space Telescope and the star that it's observing, blocking large amounts of light from bright stars that aren't being observed.
Today I will present the status of technology development directed towards internal occulters (aka coronagraphs) and external occulters (aka starshades), along with a look forward.
(Using the dark edge of the moon as an occulter is also possible.
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