ATNF archivist, Lawrence Toomey, recently unearthed several copies of a 1985 booklet on Radio Astronomy, published as one of a series of 18 booklets about research conducted within CSIRO. Radio Astronomy was prepared by a panel of CSIRO researchers chaired by Dr Bob Frater, then Chief of the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, and coordinated by Dr Jim Roberts. As might be expected, the booklet provides an interesting snapshot of research and priorities at the time. As the front and back covers (above) indicate, astro-chemistry was an active field of study, with Murriyang, the Parkes radio telescope having discovered several molecules in interstellar space in the preceding years. Other chapters include Our Star — The Sun, which includes results from the (then just closed) Culgoora radio-heliograph, Exploding Stars and Pulsars, and Galaxies, Quasars and the Far Reaches of the Universe, which notes that in 1982 a Parkes radio source was found to be the most distant known object in the Universe at the time. The booklet finishes with a description of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, then under construction.