[1] The institute focuses on stellar, solar and galactic astronomy; meteors; and the motion of cosmic bodies.

This department uses the largest telescope in the Czech Republic, which has a large reflector with a two-meter wide mirror.

This team's main research project was the micro-accelerometer, Macek, for measurements of accelerations of non-gravitational origin.

Macek was released in 1996 on the space shuttle Atlantis (mission STS-79) and in 2003 on the Czech satellite MIMOSA.

[5] The Astronomical Institute originated as an observatory founded at the beginning of the 18th century by Jesuits College in Prague.