An ATCA survey of debris disks at 7 millimeters
October 19, 2015
by Sarah Maddison (Swinburne University) Ricci et al. (2015) use the Australia Telescope Compact Array to survey five nearby debris disks at a wavelength of 7 mm, including the famous […]
The Parkes 64-m Telescope and Austie Helm
October 18, 2015
Photo credit: CSIRO This photo by Davd Moore has the following caption in the CSIRO image archive: “Austie Helm mustering sheep near the Parkes Radio Observatory, Parkes, NSW. – Austie […]
Constructing the Australia Telescope Compact Array
October 17, 2015
Photo credit: CSIRO The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), shown above during construction, was opened in 1988. It consists of six 22-m dishes with a maximum baseline of 6 km, […]
CHANG-ES astronomers probe the spectacular halos of galaxies
October 16, 2015
by Jayanne English (University of Manitoba, Canada) The CHANG-ES collaboration has recently made their first batch of specialized Very Large Array maps for 35 edge-on galaxies available to other researchers […]
ATNF Colloquium – ESO Observing Facilities
October 15, 2015
by Gianluca Chiozzi (ESO) ESO’s mission is to provide its astronomical community with worldwide competitive ground-based observing capabilities to probe the Universe from its first billion year to the present […]
ERIS2015: 6th European Radio Interferometry School
October 14, 2015
The 6th European Radio Interferometry School was held on Sep 6-10, 2015, at ESO in Garching. The topics covered included: Fundamentals of radio interferometry Calibration of continuum, spectral-line and polarization […]
Close-up of the Parkes dish with the moon
October 13, 2015
Photo by John Smith (CSIRO) A great collection of ATNF images can be found on our outreach webpages, eg. wallpapers of our telescopes and radio images of galaxies, stars, supernova […]
Peeking into our galaxy’s stellar nursery
October 12, 2015
by Erik Muller (National Astronomy Observatory, Japan) From the Press Release: Led by University of Florida astronomer Peter Barnes and Erik Muller at the National Astronomy Observatory of Japan, a […]
Neutral hydrogen distribution in M83
October 11, 2015
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) Inspired by yesterday’s ADAP of the Magnetic and gaseous spiral arms in M83 (Frick et al. 2015), here we show its neutral hydrogen distribution. – (Left) […]
Magnetic and gaseous spiral arms in M83
October 10, 2015
by Matthias Ehle (ESA) Isotropic and anisotropic wavelet transforms are used to decompose the images of the spiral galaxy M83 in various tracers to quantify structures in a range of […]
SKA Key Science workshop summary
October 9, 2015
by Jill Rathborne (CASS) An informal meeting will be held today at CASS to summarise for the Australian community the discussions at the recent SKA Key Science Program (KSP) workshop […]
ASKAP Early Science Community Workshop
October 8, 2015
by Lisa Harvey-Smith (CASS) This workshop will explore the scope, implementation and expected science outcomes of the ASKAP early science project, which is due to begin in 2016. CSIRO ASKAP […]
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.