The Ondřejov 7.5-m RT2 Radio Telescope

During the summer of 2021,  I worked under the solar radioastronomy group in Ondrejov developing code for pointing the 7.5-m RT2 telescope. Up to this point, the telescope was used only during the day for solar observations, and the program for pointing the telescope was hard-coded to always point at the Sun. My task was to produce a generalized astropy-based program, allowing users to point the telescope at a general point in the sky, automatically search for solar system bodies via the JPL-Horizons system or to observe any (deep-sky) object recognizable by SIMBAD.

I continued my work on RT2 in 2023, writing software for reduction and visualization of radio spectra. I also performed many observations, both day time and nigh time, i.e. of the Sun, quasars, pulsars and other radio sources, to further test the newly installed spectrograph.