ATNF postdocs (from left to right: Tim
Shimwell, Ioannis Gonidakis, and Amy Kimball) enjoying a working visit to the
Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). This powerful radio interferometer
consists of six 22-m dishes, together forming a 6-km diameter telescope, and
is located just outside the town of Narrabri in northern NSW. Every summer a
group of dedicated ATNF vacation students gets to use the ATCA for several
short observing projects, supervised by ATNF experts (pictured). The photo
was taken in January 2014 during a tour through the pedestal and vertex
rooms of an ATCA antenna.
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