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There are three optical observation facilities in Bisei Spaceguard Center (BSGC) catch with its own telescope. The apertures of these
telescopes are 1m, 50cm and 25cm. The specifications of the wide field
of view are: 3 degrees for the 1 m telescope and 2 degrees for the 50
cm telescope. These fields of view are much wider than those of similar
sized telescopes. To effectively cover this wide field of view, a CCD
camera with 10 sheets of 2k x 4k (about 800 million pixels) is connected
to the 1 m telescope.
The 1 m telescope is mainly used for discovering new asteroids
and space debris, while the 50 cm and 25 cm telescopes are used to follow
the movement of known celestial bodies.
Images picked up by these telescopes are used for detecting moving celestial bodies, after being processed by computers.
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[50 cm telescope] |
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[a CCD camera with 10
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