Our newly-commissioned Lucky Imaging and High Speed Photometry (LIHSP) cameras on FTN and FTS scored a great success on June 23rd at their first attempt to collect science data, catching occulations of both
Pluto and its satellite Charon from FTN! An "occultation" is simply the transit of an object along the line of sight to a star, From occultations of
Kuiper Belt Objects, you can learn about their size, and a for large one like Pluto, its atmosphere and or
