PAF on Parkes
February 11, 2016
by Simon Johnston (CASS) On Wednesday 10th February, the Phased-Array Feed was hoisted into the focus cabin of the Parkes radio telescope . All went well with the lift, and […]
The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey
February 10, 2016
by Anja Schröder (SAAO) A blind HI survey of the extragalactic sky behind the southern Milky Way has been conducted with the multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. […]
Wishing you a prosperous New Year !
February 9, 2016
by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) The Chinese characters in today’s image are pronounced “Gong Hey Fat Choy” (Cantonese) or “Gong Xi Fa Cai” (Mandarin) and constitute the traditional greeting for the […]
The Year of the Monkey
February 8, 2016
by Jing Wang (CASS) The 8th of February 2016 is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the year of the monkey. Overlaid onto the Hubble color-composite image for […]
Phased-Array Feed for Parkes
February 5, 2016
by Simon Johnston (CASS) In a few days time this beautiful Phased-Array Feed (PAF) – shown above in the CSIRO Marsfield lab – will be transported to Parkes and hoisted […]
Tucana 150 degr2 field with ASKAP-BETA
February 4, 2016
by Ian Heywood (CASS) The fourth refereed science paper to use data from the BETA telescope presents a three-epoch continuum survey in the constellation of Tucana, overlapping with the Spitzer-SPT […]
Storm Stow at ATCA
February 3, 2016
by Helga Dénes (CASS) The picture was taken on 1 February 2013 at the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) while observing neutral hydrogen (HI) in the galaxy IC 1993. IC […]
Welcome to Charlotte Sobey 🙂
February 2, 2016
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr Charlotte Sobey who joins the Astro Group as a joint Curtin University / CASS postdoctoral fellow, specialising in pulsars. Charlotte will be […]
Welcome to George Heald 🙂
February 1, 2016
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr George Heald who joins the Astro Group as another CSIRO Science Leader, specialising in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy. Based in the CASS […]
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.