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High-angular-resolution stellar imaging with occultations from the Cassini spacecraft - I. Observational technique

Nicholson, Philip D.; Hedman, Matthew M.; Lloyd, James P. +2 more

We present novel observations utilizing the Cassini spacecraft to conduct an observing campaign for stellar astronomy from a vantage point in the outer Solar system. By exploiting occultation events in which Mira passed behind the Saturnian ring plane as viewed by Cassini, parametric imaging data were recovered spanning the near-infrared. From thi…