Digital Solar Edge Tracker For The Halogen Occultation Experiment

L. E. Mauldin III; A. S. Moore; C. W. Stump; L. S. Mayo

doi:10.1117/12.7974107

1 June 1987 Digital Solar Edge Tracker For The Halogen Occultation Experiment

L. E. Mauldin III, A. S. Moore, C. W. Stump, L. S. Mayo

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 6, 266513 (June 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974107

Abstract

The optical and electronic design of the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) elevation sun sensor is described. The HALOE instrument is a gas-correlation radiometer now being developed by NASA Langley Research Center for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS). The system uses a Galilean telescope to form a solar image on a linear silicon photodiode array. The array is a self-scanned monolithic charge-coupled device. The addresses of both solar edges imaged on the array are used by the control/pointing system to scan the HALOE science instantaneous field of view (IFOV) across the vertical solar diameter during instrument calibration and then to maintain the science IFOV 4 arcmin below the top edge during the science data occultation event. Vertical resolution of 16 arcsec and a radiometric dynamic range of 100 are achieved at the 0.7 µm operating wavelength. The design provides for loss of individual photodiode elements without loss of angular tracking capability.

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L. E. Mauldin III, A. S. Moore, C. W. Stump, and L. S. Mayo "Digital Solar Edge Tracker For The Halogen Occultation Experiment," Optical Engineering 26(6), 266513 (1 June 1987). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7974107

Published: 1 June 1987

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