User Interface for the Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope
Abstract
The Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope (CHART) is a project designed to make radio astronomy affordable and accessible to undergraduate students. CHART started at Arizona State University, and they expanded the project to Winona State University. The telescope can collect and explore data from the Milky Way phenomenon called the 21-centimeter line. In planning for people who are not advanced in their coding skills, I created a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to assist in taking data with the CHART telescope and a community server for data storage and analysis. My GUI creates a purposeful and transparent user experience for taking data from the telescope that does not require the knowledge of python or command line. The CHART telescope project has been showcased in a July workshop at Winona State University where high school teachers were invited to assemble their own CHART horns for data collection. At this workshop, the attendees successfully detected the Milky Way. The project can now be implemented in their classrooms.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- January 2023
- Bibcode:
- 2023AAS...24117003A