July 29, 2022
Artists of the Wajarri Yamatji, traditional owners of the Murchison Radio-astronomy site, have created a series of paintings that express some of the researching occurring with the telescopes located there, […]
July 28, 2022
Artists of the Wajarri Yamatji, traditional owners of the Murchison Radio-astronomy site, have created a series of paintings that express some of the researching occurring with the telescopes located there, […]
July 27, 2022
Artists of the Wajarri Yamatji, traditional owners of the Murchison Radio-astronomy site, have created a series of paintings that express some of the researching occurring with the telescopes located there, […]
July 26, 2022
This month’s ASKAP update includes discussion of the first ASKAP continuum pipeline output from Setonix, the first call for observing targets corresponding to the full survey time allocation, ongoing consolidation […]
July 25, 2022
How do the jets of plasma ejected from the core of an active galaxy interact with their cosmic environment? As the initially over-pressured jet streams away from the centre of […]
July 22, 2022
This week the ATNF Science group held a three-day retreat to review what it is we do, and how we might do it better, with a view to the ATNF […]
July 21, 2022
Using the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) at Siding Spring as the sun, there exists a virtual solar system containing the planets, scaled to size, and spaced at appropriate […]
July 20, 2022
To work optimally, interferometers like the Australia telescope Compact Array need to combine the signals from all antennas in phase. The dominant source of phase errors in interferometric radio observations […]
July 19, 2022
Today’s ADAP shows some of the environmental monitoring equipment at the Australia Telescope Compact Array. On top of the Control Building is an anemometer to measure wind speed and direction […]
July 18, 2022
Friday’s ADAP showed the ATCA at sunrise, and today’s captures it just after the sun had set!
July 15, 2022
The ATCA is currently in the H214 array configuration, a “hybrid” configuration with two antennas on the north-south spur and three others close by along the east-west track. Antenna CA06 […]
July 14, 2022
A recent ADAP showed the stairs from the surface of the Parkes 64m telescope, Murriyang, up to the focus cabin. Today’s ADAP shows the equivalent at the Australia Telescope Compact […]
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.