SKA calendar for August
August 10, 2020
The SKA calendar for 2020 celebrates the SKA family of pathfinder telescopes. August focuses on e-MERLIN, the enhanced Multi Element Remotely Linked Interferometer Network. e-MERLIN consists of an array of […]
David Malin Awards
August 7, 2020
The NSW Central West Astronomical Society held its annual astrophotography competition last month. Amateur astro-photographers from around Australia submitted entries for consideration in the prestigious David Malin Awards. The winner […]
David Malin Awards
August 6, 2020
The NSW Central West Astronomical Society held its annual astrophotography competition last month. Amateur astro-photographers from around Australia submitted entries for consideration in the prestigious David Malin Awards. The winner […]
A foggy morning at Narrabri
August 5, 2020
A spectacular sunrise on a foggy morning at the Australia Telescope Compact Array. (Image credit: Tim Wilson)
A foggy morning at Narrabri
August 4, 2020
Recent ADAPs showed a foggy start to the day at the MRO, and today illustrates similar conditions at the Paul Wild Observatory at Narrabri. In the foreground is an antenna […]
Comet Neowise at Parkes
August 3, 2020
Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a long period comet discovered in March by astronomers using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. The designation C/2020 F3 indicates a non-periodic […]
Navigation satellite passes close to an ASKAP beam – by Xiang Zhang
July 31, 2020
Navigation satellites are known to cause bursts of Radio Frequency Interference in some AKSAP observations, as they transmit in bands that lie in ASKAPs 700 — 1800 MHz band. To […]
ASKAP and MWA imaging of radio galaxies – by Hodgson et al.
July 30, 2020
Hodgson et al. have used the MWA and ASKAP to follow up 28 candidate large-scale diffuse synchrotron sources previously reported as possible detections of filaments of the synchrotron cosmic web. […]
ATNF Colloquium – Dispatches from the black hole mass gaps: recent results from LIGO-Virgo
July 29, 2020
Eric Thrane (Monash University & OzGrav) Abstract: Conventional wisdom has it that the masses of stellar black holes are bounded below and above by gaps. The hypothesised low-mass gap, between […]
ASKAP and MWA imaging of radio galaxies – by Hodgson et al.
July 28, 2020
Hodgson et al. have used the MWA and ASKAP to follow up 28 candidate large-scale diffuse synchrotron sources previously reported as possible detections of filaments of the synchrotron cosmic web. […]
Kensington Telescope Operations Room
July 27, 2020
Refurbishments to the CASS area of CSIRO’s Kensington site in Perth are almost complete. Among the changes from the previous layout are two dedicated Telescope Operations Rooms, similar to the […]
ASKAP detection of cluster halo and relic – by Kim et al.
July 24, 2020
A galaxy cluster can consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies, bound into the cluster by gravity. Large-scale diffuse radio emissions provide information about galaxy cluster mergers, and can be […]
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.