Australian Space Awards 2020
November 20, 2020
The inaugural Australian Space Awards, hosted by Space Connect and principal partner KBR, were held last night at a COVID-safe black-tie gala and online event. The awards celebrated a field […]
Acknowledging traditional owners
November 19, 2020
NAIDOC week , which ran from November 8th to 15th this year, celebrated the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Recent ADAPs have shown the […]
The ATCA’s 500th array reconfiguration – by Jamie Stevens
November 18, 2020
The Australia Telescope Compact Array consists of six 22-m diameter dishes, five of which can be moved along a 3-km long east-west rail track, with a 214-m north-south spur. On […]
Parkes studies of the intermittent pulsar J1326−6700 – by Wen et al.
November 17, 2020
Wen et al. have recently reported on a detailed study on the mode switching in pulsar J1326−6700 based on data with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope at 1369 MHz. In […]
SKA calendar for November
November 16, 2020
The SKA calendar for 2020 celebrates the SKA family of pathfinder telescopes. November focuses on the Murchison Widefield Array, which is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia […]
Acknowledging traditional owners
November 13, 2020
NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC week is usually held in July, but COVID-19 resulted in the week being postponed […]
Acknowledging traditional owners
November 12, 2020
NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC week is usually held in July, but COVID-19 resulted in the week being postponed […]
ATNF Colloquium – Radio exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and stars at low-frequencies
November 11, 2020
Joe Callingham (Leiden) Abstract: For more than thirty years, radio astronomers have searched for auroral emission from exoplanets. With LOFAR we have recently detected strong, highly circularly polarised low-frequency (144 […]
Wiradjuri names for Parkes telescopes
November 10, 2020
Telescopes at the Parkes Obervatory have been given Wiradjuri names during a ceremony to mark the start of NAIDOC week. The Parkes 64m telescope — the Dish — will now […]
NAIDOC week 2020
November 9, 2020
NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC originally stood for the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, which was responsible […]
Acknowledging traditional owners
November 6, 2020
NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC originally stood for the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, which was responsible […]
DSS-43 maintenance
November 5, 2020
The 70m antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC), DSS-43, has been offline since March for a Depot Level Maintenance period. As noted yesterday, it recently communicated with […]
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.