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As part of the Airborne Astronomy
Ambassadors program two teachers from

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Germany and their escort recently flew
aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for

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Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA.

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The teachers observed as scientists
collected data from the German Receiver

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for Astronomy Terahertz frequency
instrument installed on the 2.5

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meter telescope. Check every, check all
the pointing for nearby stars and then

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check it on Saturn again.  Then we'll do the focus.  OK, thank you.

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When
observation time was completed, the

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researchers began to analyze the data
explaining each step of the process to

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the teachers.
The Germans joined six teachers from the

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United States as the first educators to
observe SOFIA's scientific research and