Happy Birthday!
July 20, 2018
As was apparent from last Wednesday’s ADAP, Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell is currently visiting Australia. While the main purpose of her visit was to give the keynote John Bolton Lecture at […]
The virtual Parkes telescope!
July 19, 2018
As part of the ongoing development of the long running PULSE@Parkes education programme, a new 3-D virtualisation of the iconic CSIRO Parkes 64m Radio Telescope has been developed, including the […]
ATNF Colloquium – A graduate student’s story – the discovery of pulsars
July 18, 2018
by Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell FRS (University of Oxford) Abstract: I will describe the discovery of pulsars from the point of view of the graduate student involved, in the contexts of […]
ATNF Town Hall meeting at the ASA
July 17, 2018
It has become customary to hold an ATNF Town Hall meeting at the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia, and this year’s meeting at Swinburne was no exception. […]
Astronomical Society of Australia annual meeting
July 16, 2018
The annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia was held recently at Swinburne University. With around 300 participants, the 2018 annual meeting was the largest ever of the Society, […]
Panoramic views of Mopra, part 2
July 13, 2018
The Mopra 22m radio telescope is located near Coonabarabran and the Siding Spring Observatory. Although no longer offered as a National Facility telescope, the telescope continues to be used by […]
Panoramic views of Mopra, part 1
July 12, 2018
The Mopra 22m radio telescope is located near Coonabarabran and the Siding Spring Observatory. Although no longer offered as a National Facility telescope, the telescope continues to be used by […]
ATNF Colloquium – Polarization Archetypes in Protostellar Disks and Cores: The ALMA view and beyond (SKA)
July 11, 2018
by Josep Miquel Girart (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai) Abstract: Linear polarization observations with ALMA is allowing to study the dust polarization properties at disk and core scales towards low […]
RadioAstron 7th Anniversary
July 10, 2018
The RadioAstron satellite, Spektr-R, was launched 7 years ago this month. The satellite was placed in a ~9 day orbit around the Earth — which takes it most of the […]
ASKAP PAF and Antennas
July 9, 2018
The next Array Release of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is imminent. Late last year the last of the 36 antennas was outfitted with its Phased Array Feed […]
International Women in Engineering Day
July 6, 2018
International Women in Engineering Day was celebrated recently, with the SKA telescope webpages featuring an article that asked a number of women, including CASS’s Mia Baquiran and Suzy Jackson, who […]
2018 ICRAR/CASS Radio School
July 5, 2018
The Radio School teaches the fundamentals of Radio Astronomy to participants and postdoctoral scientists at the PhD level or above. With the advent of science operations on ASKAP and MWA […]
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.