AGO70: The Slovak Space Debris Observations Capability

Space debris objects have undeniably negative effect on currently running and future space-related missions in the form of risking human lives or expensive equipment. Finding, observing and tracking unresponsive space debris objects is critical in preventing collisions with functioning satellites. The most popular systems for observing space debris are optical telescopes. Comenius University in Bratislava has acquired such telescope by applying for and receiving funding from the European Space Agency's Plan For European Cooperating States. This paper presents a short overview of the device's hardware configuration, as well as software packages that are used for image processing of acquired astronomical frames.