Camels captured (on camera) at the MRO
March 13, 2020
ADAPs have previously highlighted emus at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory , and a bungarra (or sand monitor) , and another strolling past the AAVS (Aperture Array Verification System), but this […]
Pulse at Parkes at Pawsey in Perth
March 12, 2020
PULSE@Parkes is an education program allowing high school students to take control of the Parkes radio telescope and do some real science by observing pulsars. Pulsars, the rapidly spinning remnants […]
Wallaby Busy Week
March 11, 2020
The ASKAP WALLABY survey will observe the sky in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen (or HI) at 30-arcsec resolution, detecting and imaging the gas distribution in hundreds of thousands […]
Pawsey Medal
March 10, 2020
The Australian Academy of Science’s Pawsey Medal for 2020 has been awarded to Associate Professor Adam Deller from Swinburne University of Technology. Adam uses high angular resolution radio imaging to […]
Welcome Rebecca Wheadon
March 9, 2020
CSIRO is excited to welcome Rebecca Wheadon to our Astronomy and Space Science team as Site Entity Leader for the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). Based in Perth, Rebecca will be […]
VAST Pilot Survey Observations Completed – by Emil Lenc
March 6, 2020
The ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) has recently completed 100 hours of observations as part of an ASKAP pilot survey spanning a period of just over five […]
SKA booth at Perth AstroFest
March 5, 2020
The annual Perth AstroFest was held last weekend at Curtin University Stadium. Organised by Astronomy WA and ICRAR, Astrofest is a free event featuring an astrophotography exhibition, inflatable planetariums, science […]
ATNF Colloquium – The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment – CHIME
March 4, 2020
Tom Landecker (DRAO, NRC Canada) Abstract: The CHIME radio telescope was designed to map the matter distribution in the Universe over the redshift range 0.8 to 2.5, to cover the […]
CASS booth at Perth AstroFest
March 3, 2020
The annual Perth AstroFest was held last weekend at Curtin University Stadium. Organised by Astronomy WA and ICRAR, Astrofest is a free event featuring an astrophotography exhibition, inflatable planetariums, science […]
SKA Calendar for March
March 2, 2020
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) calendar for 2020 celebrates the SKA family of pathfinder telescopes. March focuses on LOFAR (the Low Frequency Array), an SKA pathfinder with its core in […]
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.