PULSE@Parkes Sessions Oct 214 – Feb 2015 Now Open

September 10, 2014

There are four new sessions available for schools to take part in our PULSE@Parkes program. These free sessions are open for classes from years 10-12 and provide your students the […]

ASKAP News: Mk II PAF lifted on to ASKAP antenna

September 5, 2014

The first full-size second generation (Mk II) phased array feed receiver was lifted on to ASKAP Antenna 29 at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory yesterday, marking a new milestone in the […]

ASKAP News: Mk II PAF pre-production underway

September 5, 2014

While testing and installation of the Mk II PAF is underway at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, back at the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science lab in Sydney, pre-production of the […]

Steerable beams create flexible ‘footprints’

September 5, 2014

The flexibility of the ASKAP phased array feed has been demonstrated by a variety of BETA observations using different shaped ‘beam footprints’. BETA has been used to image a galaxy […]