ASKAP Update for May
May 22, 2025
Tha ASKAP Update for May includes reports on survey progress, observing over the Easter break, an attempt to see the re-entry of COSMOS 482 and the first calibration reference field […]
Bolton Symposium
May 21, 2025
The Bolton Symposium, named after the first director of Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, John Gatenby Bolton (1922-1993), provides a forum for early-career research (ECR) staff within the Australia Telescope National Facility […]
BIGCAT
May 20, 2025
The Australia Telescope Compact Array is currently in the process of being upgraded to the new BIGCAT (Broadband Integrated GPU Correlator for ATCA) system. BIGCAT will provide a spectral resolution of at […]
ATCA update
May 19, 2025
The Australia Telescope Compact Array is currently in the process of being upgraded from the CABB (Compact Array Broadband Backend) correlator to the new BIGCAT system. BIGCAT, the Broadband Integrated […]
Steering Committee visit SKA-Low
May 15, 2025
The Australia Telescope Steering Committee (ATSC) provides advice to the ATNF Director on the scientific and technical operations of the ATNF. The ATSC includes four Australian astronomers, three overseas experts, […]
Steering Committee visit to ASKAP
May 14, 2025
The Australia Telescope Steering Committee (ATSC) provides advice to the ATNF Director on the scientific and technical operations of the ATNF. Committee members are appointed by the CSIRO Board. The […]
CRACO detections of pulsars
May 13, 2025
Wang et al. present the first results from a new ASKAP backend, the CRAFT (Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient) COherent (CRACO) upgrade. CRACO records millisecond time resolution visibility data, and […]
Aliasing in images
May 12, 2025
Wang et al. present the first results from a new ASKAP backend, the CRAFT (Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient) COherent (CRACO) upgrade. CRACO records millisecond time resolution visibility data, and […]
ASKAP’s new CRACO backend
May 9, 2025
Wang et al. present the first results from a new ASKAP backend, the CRAFT (Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient) COherent (CRACO) upgrade. CRACO records millisecond time resolution visibility data, and […]
ASKAP’s new CRACO backend
May 8, 2025
Wang et al. present the first results from a new ASKAP backend, the CRAFT (Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient) COherent (CRACO) upgrade. CRACO records millisecond time resolution visibility data, and […]
Mirror image
May 7, 2025
A recent ADAP showed Australia Telescope Compact Array antennas after 120mm of rain had fallen in the area over two days in late March. The event led to widespread flooding […]
OH What a Lovely Molecule!
May 6, 2025
“OH What a Lovely Molecule!” is the the name of a Workshop to be held on-line from 23-27 June 2025. Each day of the workshop will have a theme: Monday, […]
Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc.
Our site was inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day – @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image – @dailyimage.
We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image related to our facilities (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra, ASKAP and LBA), together with a brief description and credits. Submissions can be emailed to the ADAP curator, (phil.edwards [at] csiro.au).
The ADAP was created in December 2014 by Baerbel Koribalski and Simon Johnston. Over 2500 ADAPs have now been published. Vince McIntyre, Nathan Pope, and Andrew O’Brien are acknowledged for their dedicated technical support. The ADAP is currently curated by Phil Edwards.