December 26, 2017
As the final part of our end-of-year extravaganza, we have blown the ADAP budget by hiring a helicopter to suspend a Christmas star by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, […]
December 25, 2017
As the second part of our end-of-year extravaganza, we have blown the ADAP budget by hiring a helicopter to suspend a Christmas star by the Australia Telescope Compact Array, being […]
December 22, 2017
As the first part of our end-of-year extravaganza, we have blown the ADAP budget by hiring a helicopter to suspend a Christmas star by the Parkes telescope, being very careful […]
December 21, 2017
To be scientifically competitive, radio telescopes must have the latest technology to detect, process and analyse the incoming radio waves. CSIRO has been developing specialised instrumentation for radio telescopes since […]
December 20, 2017
by Simon Johnston (CASS) Spiewak et al. report on the discovery of a fascinating millisecond pulsar as part of the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey on the Parkes radio […]
December 19, 2017
One of the memorable lines from the movie The Dish comes after a politician says to the Prime Minister “Turns out that Parkes is the biggest radio telescope in the […]
December 18, 2017
OzGrav , or more formally the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, was officially opened last month by the Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham. As part […]
December 15, 2017
This week the fourth conference in the series of Science At Low Frequencies meetings is being held at the University of Sydney. With 130 participants, and 60 talks over the […]
December 14, 2017
Last week’s Bolton Symposium was followed by a launch of Peter Robertson’s biography of John Bolton. Ron Ekers, a former student of Bolton’s, spoke about his experiences having Bolton as […]
December 13, 2017
As described in yesterday’s ADAP, a biography of pioneering radio-astronomer John Bolton has recently been published by NewSouth Publishing. Author Peter Robertson, who also wrote Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy […]
December 12, 2017
The annual Bolton Symposium was held at Marsfield last week, giving students, postdocs and staff a chance to describe the work they have been doing this year. The Symposium is […]
December 11, 2017
by Marilyn Drake (CASS) CASS has welcomed undergraduate students from across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for the 2017 – 2018 Undergraduate vacation Scholarship program. This year’s program has […]
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.