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19-03-2024
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SKA-LOW Operator Visits ASTRON: Take 2

Submitter: Charlotte Sobey
Description: G'day, I'm Charlotte Sobey. I am currently working as a 'SKA-Low Telescope Operator & Data Analyst' in the SKA Observatory's Australian Science Operations Centre, Perth. I visited ASTRON from 4-15 March, following Riley Keel's visit.

This image shows just a snapshot of some of the activities during the fortnight: from visiting the LOFAR core and replacing an HBA board (left); to riding the cherry picker up to the focus of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) Dish 0 to see the Multi Frequency Front End receiver (top right).

I would like to thank everyone in Telescope Operations (TO), Science Data Centre Operations (SDCO), and the Science Groups for their hospitality, enthusiasm, and willingness to share their knowledge. It was great to see many of my previous colleagues again (I was a postdoc at ASTRON from 2013-2016), and meet a lot of new colleagues. I learnt a great deal from the visit, which I look forward to feeding into SKA developments and SKA-Low Science Operations.

In particular, I would like to sincerely thank Marco Drost, Bernard Asabere, Henk Mulder, Jurjen Sluman, Leysan Mulder, Lute van de Bult, Menno Norden, Peter Gruppen, Richard Blaauw, Ronald Schrik, Yvonne Dijk, and Zabet Ahmadi for sharing your time and expertise.

I look forward to collaborating with you going forward and sharing our experiences between SKA and LOFAR2.0 developments.
Copyright: Charlotte Sobey / Ronald Schrik
 
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