National Institutes of Natural Science (NINS)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,
Solar Science Observatory

National Institutes of Natural Science (NINS)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Solar Science Observatory

Member Introduction

SCIP was developed through the combined effort of researchers and engineers. Some of the optical components were produced in collaboration with the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and Kyoto University. In addition, the development was carried out in cooperation with an overseas team led by the Spanish Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA).

Yukio Katsukawa

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / Solar Science Observatory
Masahito Kubo

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / SOLAR-C Project
Hirohisa Hara

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / SOLAR-C project
Toshifumi Shimizu

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) / Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)
Takayoshi Oba

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / SOLAR-C Project
Yusuke Kawabata

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / SOLAR-C Project
Yoshinori Suematsu

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Advanced Technology Center
Toshihiro Tsuzuki

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / Advanced Technology Center (ATC)
Fumihiro Uraguchi

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / Advanced Technology Center (ATC)
Yoshifumi Nodomi

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / SOLAR-C Project
Tomonori Tamura

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / Advanced Technology Center (ATC)
Kazuya Shinoda

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / SOLAR-C Project
Takuma Matsumoto

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / Solar Science Observatory
Carlos Quintero Noda

Spain / Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
Shinichi Nagata

Kyoto University
Kiyoshi Ichimoto

Kyoto University

Development of the Scan Mirror Mechanism

Takayoshi Oba

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) / Project Researcher

I'm in charge of the development of the Scan Mirror Mechanism, and I've been working on it for more than four years. The experience of "making one thing over several years" was a very valuable opportunity that I had never had before. The selling point of SCIP Scanning Mirror Mechanism is its speed (10 times faster than the solar-observing satellite "Hinode"!), so I am really looking forward to see what kind of data we can obtain.