It was an unusually wet and chilly day for our special guests at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Wednesday. Here’s the group at the Murchison Widefield Array (a low frequency telescope operated by Curtin University). Left to right: Kevin Ferguson (CSIRO) Tom Booler (ICRAR/Curtin), CSIRO Chairman David Thodey, Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, Director of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Mark Stickells, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (ICRAR/Curtin), Tanya Bowes (CSIRO), Antony Schinckel (CSIRO) and Astronomer-at-Large Fred Watson. (Photo credit: Kurt Warhurst)