OGS Telescope

ESA Space Debris Telescope
The ESA Optical Ground Station (on the left)
Alternative names Optical Ground Station Edit this at Wikidata
Observatory Teide Observatory Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s) Tenerife, Spain Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates 28°18′04″N 16°30′43″W / 28.301°N 16.511831°W / 28.301; -16.511831Coordinates: 28°18′04″N 16°30′43″W / 28.301°N 16.511831°W / 28.301; -16.511831 Edit this at Wikidata
Organization European Space Agency Edit this on Wikidata
Observatory code J04 Edit this on Wikidata
Telescope style Optical telescope
Ritchey–Chrétien telescope Edit this on Wikidata
Diameter 1 m (3 ft 3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Focal length 13.3 m (43 ft 8 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Website www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Space_Optoelectronics/Optical_Ground_Station_OGS Edit this at Wikidata
Location of OGS Telescope

The Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope, installed in the Teide Observatory, has been built by Carl Zeiss, is owned by ESA (European Space Agency) and is operated by the IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) and Ataman Science S.L.U.

The telescope is a 1 m Ritchey-Chretien / Coudé telescope supported by an English-built mount inside a dome 12.5 metre in diameter. Its main purposes are:

  1. to be the optical ground station of the Artemis telecommunications satellite (the project from which the telescope takes its name)
  2. to make surveys of space debris in different orbits around the Earth,
  3. to test observing strategies of near-Earth objects as part of ESA's Space Situational Awareness programme, and
  4. to make scientific astronomical night observations.

Since 2006, the telescope has also been used as a receiver station for quantum communication experiments (such as testing Bell inequalities, quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation), with the sender station being 143 km away in the observatory on La Palma.[1] This is possible because this telescope can be tilted to a near-horizontal position to point it at La Palma, which many large astronomical telescopes are unable to do.

List of discovered minor planets

EAS OGS has been credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 37 minor planets.[2] These are:

(231609) 2009 RV10 September 2009list
(241554) 2010 FA9323 March 2010list
(246849) 2010 FB4822 March 2010list
(251626) 2010 FM5322 March 2010list
(257422) 2010 FR4722 March 2010list
(257423) 2010 FM4822 March 2010list
284891 Kona13 September 2009list
(296587) 2009 RA2613 September 2009list
297005 Ellirichter22 March 2010list
(301679) 2010 FA4822 March 2010list
(312714) 2010 RR31 September 2010list
(321480) 2009 RZ6910 September 2009list
(321810) 2010 RK41 September 2010list
(325476) 2009 RY10 September 2009list
(325791) 2010 RX41 September 2010list
(330873) 2009 RQ110 September 2009list
332706 Karlheidlas13 September 2009list
(343557) 2010 FX4722 March 2010list
(343577) 2010 FF8822 March 2010list
(347299) 2011 OA281 June 2011list
(356298) 2010 FT4722 March 2010list
(362429) 2010 RU41 September 2010list
(365291) 2009 RO2613 September 2009list
(368098) 2013 BP706 June 2010list
(369284) 2009 RQ2613 September 2009list
(381725) 2009 RP513 September 2009list
(386618) 2009 RD2613 September 2009list
(398163) 2010 FS4722 March 2010list
(403532) 2010 FG8822 March 2010list
(419562) 2010 RF51 September 2010list
420779 Świdwin11 April 2013list
(436317) 2010 FP4722 March 2010list
(438881) 2009 RD2810 September 2009list
(457818) 2009 RB5810 September 2009list
(463362) 2012 TB3015 September 2012list
(481993) 2009 RO2713 September 2009list
(482129) 2010 RC51 September 2010list

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ESA observatory breaks world quantum teleportation record". ESA press release. 6 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
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