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February 28, 2022

During the recent repeat observation of the historic lunar occultation of the radio source 3C273 with the Parkes radio telescope, ASKAP also observed the “emersion” event. We couldn’t observe the […]

February 25, 2022

The book Golden Years of Radio Astronomy by Orchiston, Roberston, and Sullivan presents an overview of the remarkable evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960. The book begins […]

February 24, 2022

The 2022 Vacation Student program has come to an end, with the students having wrapped up their projects, given their final presentations, and returned home… but not before being interviewed […]

February 23, 2022

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) completed a second survey of the entire sky early in 2021. This time it observed at an ASKAP mid-band frequency rather than the lower-band […]

February 22, 2022

Sixty years ago, the Parkes telescope played a critical role in the discovery of quasars, using a series of lunar occultations of the bright radio source 3C273 to pin-point its […]

February 21, 2022

Franco Di Dio recently joined the Parkes Observatory as Site Leader and Senior Engineer. By way of self-introduction, Franco says, “As a young boy, I was mad about anything space-related. […]

February 18, 2022

The animation above shows the regions of the sky observed with ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) during the RACS-high observations (Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey, high frequency band). The entire […]

February 17, 2022

The ASKAP update for February describes plans for migration of CASDA (the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive) to new hardware and announces the return of an upgraded Observation Management Portal. […]

February 16, 2022

Joe Callingham (Leiden University/ASTRON) Abstract: One key question that astronomy is attempting to answer is whether there are habitable planets around stars other than our Sun. While we have entered […]

February 15, 2022

A conference on VLBI in the SKA Era is being held this week. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is essential to enable high-impact radio astronomy science capability, including radio imaging […]

February 14, 2022

The angular resolution of an array of radio telescopes becomes finer as the distance between the telescopes increases. There is therefore a natural limit to Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) […]

February 11, 2022

Bhandari et al. present the localization and host galaxies of one repeating and two apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRB20191228A and FRB20200906A were detected and localized by ASKAP to […]


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.