{"title":"Sand Hill Optical Telescope (SHOT) for Space Surveillance and Tracking Observations","authors":"Bohuslav Matouš, Zdeněk Moravec","doi":"10.1002/asna.70077","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>Sand hill optical telescope (SHOT) is an optical sensor dedicated mainly for space surveillance and tracking (SST) activities. The SHOT sensor is operated by the Teplice Observatory that is located 80 km north of Prague, Czech Republic. The SHOT sensor is designed in a manner allowing observations of all SST targets ranging from fast satellites in LEO, through geostationary satellites to near-Earth objects. The commanding SW allows autonomous operation of the SHOT sensor. It is capable to get an observation request, observing the object, processing the acquired images, and uploading the results during the night automatically. The precise astrometry results allowed it to participate in several ESA projects and became a part of the EU SST network. The paper describes the hardware and software setup of the sensor in detail as well as the observation process and the key difficulties.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":55442,"journal":{"name":"Astronomische Nachrichten","volume":"347 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Astronomische Nachrichten","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.70077","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/1/12 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sand hill optical telescope (SHOT) is an optical sensor dedicated mainly for space surveillance and tracking (SST) activities. The SHOT sensor is operated by the Teplice Observatory that is located 80 km north of Prague, Czech Republic. The SHOT sensor is designed in a manner allowing observations of all SST targets ranging from fast satellites in LEO, through geostationary satellites to near-Earth objects. The commanding SW allows autonomous operation of the SHOT sensor. It is capable to get an observation request, observing the object, processing the acquired images, and uploading the results during the night automatically. The precise astrometry results allowed it to participate in several ESA projects and became a part of the EU SST network. The paper describes the hardware and software setup of the sensor in detail as well as the observation process and the key difficulties.
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Astronomische Nachrichten, founded in 1821 by H. C. Schumacher, is the oldest astronomical journal worldwide still being published. Famous astronomical discoveries and important papers on astronomy and astrophysics published in more than 300 volumes of the journal give an outstanding representation of the progress of astronomical research over the last 180 years. Today, Astronomical Notes/ Astronomische Nachrichten publishes articles in the field of observational and theoretical astrophysics and related topics in solar-system and solar physics. Additional, papers on astronomical instrumentation ground-based and space-based as well as papers about numerical astrophysical techniques and supercomputer modelling are covered. Papers can be completed by short video sequences in the electronic version. Astronomical Notes/ Astronomische Nachrichten also publishes special issues of meeting proceedings.
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