GAUSS has been actively monitoring the descent and reentry of the Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1, using CastelGAUSS Observatory. The image shown has been captured today, March 31 2018, 03:50:28 UTC, with an exposure of 0.5 seconds. The Space Station is the bright pattern, while the point north of it is Saturn, Mars is down to the […]
As part of the CastelGauss Project, Castelgrande Observatory is up and running, detecting space objects and determining their orbits, through ground-based optical telescope and radars. The work on the 22-cm telescope performed observations of various asteroids and provided astrometric measurements. Especially during this winter clearest nights, sky observations executed by GAUSS collaborator Sergei Schmalz […]
SpaDe Observatory In 2006 the GAUSS Group of the University of Roma “Sapienza” was chosen by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to design and shape the first Italian optical observatory to perform space debris observation. The University/ASI Observatory GAUSS was named “SpaDe” (Space Debris) and it was located in Collepardo (Frosinone, Lazio Italian region) at an altitude […]
GAUSS participates in the Castelgrande Observatory Mission, through the CastelGAUSS Project, providing valuable technical assistance and its know-how in space debris research. The area of Toppo di Castelgrande, in the Italian region of Basilicata, is particularly suitable for space objects observation. This zone was already selected to host the astronomical observatory managed by INAF-Capodimonte, with a […]
GAUSS develops remote controlled telescope stations equipped with automatic telescope mounts, light domes for equipment storing, PCs for telescopes control and remote management. GAUSS has been involved in the international study on Space Debris in the framework of IADC (Inter Agency Debris Committee) programs. GAUSS has developed a software for object identification for telescope-captured images. The software identifies traces […]
