Bisei Spaceguard Center

The Bisei Spaceguard Center (Japanese: 美星スペースガードセンター) (BSGC) is a spaceguard facility adjacent to the Bisei Astronomical Observatory [ja] (BAO), an astronomical observatory located at Bisei-chō, Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

[1][3] Space debris, along with defunct spaceships, satellites as well as other small objects can present a hazard to operating spacecraft.

The telescopes which keep track of any space debris are staffed and operated by members of the Japan Spaceguard Association.

The 1-meter Cassegrain telescope has a field of view of three degrees and there are plans to use a mosaic of ten CCD detectors each one of which will have dimensions of 2096 x 4096 pixels.

[1] As an anomaly, the survey is also credited with the discovery of (100501) 1996 XA19 at Kiso Observatory in 1996, or 4 years before the Bisei Spaceguard Center was constructed.