I spent my summer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at GreenBank, WestVirginia. I worked on capturing device monitoring data and observing statistics of the Green Bank Telescope. The primary goal was to characterize telescope time.
An informal Summary of my work can be found here : Research goals for the summer Metadata capture architecture. Quality Database Documentation. Tech Report
Here is a picture of the GBT - world's largest fully steerable single dish radio telescope.