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Planning and Executing Airborne Astronomy Missions for SOFIA
Michael A. K. Gross, Ralph Y. Shuping
SOFIA is a 2.5 meter airborne infrared telescope, mounted in a Boeing 747SP aircraft. Due to the large size of the telescope, only a few degrees of azimuth are available at the tel…
astro-ph.IM2010
Pointing the SOFIA Telescope
Michael A. K. Gross, John J. Rasmussen, Elizabeth M. Moore
SOFIA is an airborne, gyroscopically stabilized 2.5m infrared telescope, mounted to a spherical bearing. Unlike its predecessors, SOFIA will work in absolute coordinates, despite i…