December 31, 2015
A great photo of the Parkes 64-m Telescope by one of our international observers, Alessandro Ridolfi, taken on the 5th of August 2012. – Happy 2015 New Year’s Eve to […]
December 30, 2015
by Trevor S. Bird Summary: The types of aperture antennas covered in this book include the main types of horns, reflectors and arrays as well as microstrip patches, reflectarrays and […]
December 29, 2015
This timelapse – uploaded on the 25th of August 2013 – celebrates the 25th anniversary of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) . Video by Alex Cherney ( terrastro.com ).
December 27, 2015
by Rob Hollow (CASS) Students in Guangzhou, China, observing pulsars with the Parkes radio telescope assisted by CASS astronomer Dr Matthew Kerr. Three CASS staff visited Guangzhou last week to […]
December 26, 2015
CSIRO’s Parkes 64-m telescope via the “Tag Galaxy” visualisation tool.
December 25, 2015
Happy holidays to all – enjoy the well deserved break and catch a few waves. And here is how we celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas Day last year. Photo credit: […]
December 24, 2015
by Aaron Chippendale (CASS) Well, well, … did I just stumble upon Santa’s workshop or is this the amazing CSIRO lab where dedicated expert staff build, assemble and test Phased-Array […]
December 23, 2015
by Minh Huynh (UWA) The XXL team have observed two large areas of sky (25 square degrees each, or more than 100 times the area of the moon) in the […]
December 22, 2015
Shi Dai got his PhD degree in astrophysics from Peking University in July 2015. He was co-supervised by George Hobbs at CASS from 2013 to 2015. His research interests are […]
December 21, 2015
by Flornes Yuen (CASS) As the end of the year approaches, now is a time to reflect on the major achievements of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) project in 2015, […]
December 20, 2015
by Simon Johnston (CASS) Our latest postdoc, Xinping Deng , puts on his protective gear and gets ready for the climb to the Parkes telescope focus cabin. Optical fibres have […]
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.