Welcome to the Australia Telescope National Facility

The Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) sits within the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) business unit and supports Australia's research in radio astronomy. The ATNF operates the Australia Telescope which consists of the Compact Array at Narrabri and the Parkes and Mopra radio telescopes. These telescopes can be used together as a long baseline array for use in Very Long Baseline Interferometry. CSIRO is Australia's national scientific research organisation and is funded by the Australian Government.