September 29, 2017
The 1st of October is International Coffee Day, and as coffee is the favoured beverage of many astronomers during their observations (or more generally), we commemorate this occasion with a […]
September 28, 2017
The CASS Radio Astronomy School is currently underway at the Australia Telescope Compact Array, near Narrabri. A bumper crop of students has signed up for a week-long program of lectures […]
September 27, 2017
The CASS Radio Astronomy School is currently underway at the Australia Telescope Compact Array, near Narrabri. A bumper crop of students has signed up for a week-long program of lectures […]
September 26, 2017
(by Müller et al.) TANAMI (Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry) is a multiwavelength project to monitor relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) of the Southern Sky. […]
September 25, 2017
(by Müller et al.) TANAMI (Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry) is a multiwavelength project to monitor relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) of the Southern Sky. […]
September 22, 2017
The third ACAMAR meeting — Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics — was held in Hobart this week. Following Elaine Sadler’s opening remarks (yesterday’s ADAP), today’s picture shows Ji Yang also welcoming […]
September 21, 2017
The third ACAMAR meeting — Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics — was held in Hobart this week. The picture above shows Elaine Sadler welcoming participants to the meeting. The focus of […]
September 20, 2017
(by Ray Norris) The plot above shows the number of radio sources detected by the largest extragalactic radio surveys, from the birth of radio astronomy to the next-generation surveys. Radio […]
September 19, 2017
CSIRO’s Phased Array Feed (PAF) technology will go on show at the Adelaide Convention Centre as part of the International Astronautical Congress 2017 from September 25 to 29. PAFs were […]
September 18, 2017
(by Tim Wilson) The picture above is the last in this series related to the repair of the Parkes Master Equatorial drive system, and shows the reassembled drive system with […]
September 15, 2017
Tonight, our team at Tidbinbilla will play a crucial role in monitoring the final hours of the Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere. Launched in October, 1997, Cassini […]
September 14, 2017
(by Tim Wilson) The picture above shows more detail of the Parkes Master Equatorial drive system. The gold-coloured main hour angle gear-wheel can be seen, but in this image the […]
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.