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March 31, 2023

Michael Kramer (MPIfR, Bonn) Abstract: We experience a golden era in testing and exploring relativistic gravity. Whether it is results from gravitational wave detectors, satellite or lab experiments, radio astronomy […]

March 30, 2023

Yesterday’s ADAP showed pulsar profiles as a function of frequency across the Parkes Murriyang Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver, which covers frequencies from 0.7 to 4.0 GHz. The overall contamination of […]

March 29, 2023

The Parkes Ultra-–Wide-bandwidth Low-frequency (UWL) receiver was installed on Murriyang, the 64 m Parkes Radio Telescope, in 2018. Observations with the UWL provide an instantaneous frequency coverage from 704 to […]

March 28, 2023

Windy weather in the ACT region resulted in this bank of cloud approaching the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex from the southwest. The CDSCC’s biggest antenna, the 70m diameter Deep […]

March 27, 2023

Last week, the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) hosted a visit from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy. The photo above was taken in front […]

March 24, 2023

A previous ADAP has summmarised the progression of SKA Aperture Array Verification Systems deployed at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. Antennas for the latest […]

March 23, 2023

March’s ASKAP update describes ongoing efforts to migrate processing to Setonix, efforts to support additional survey modes, CRACO (CRAFT Coherent) firmware tests, Observatory maintenance activities, and further holography workflow improvements. […]

March 22, 2023

Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) Abstract: SKA pathfinder instruments are probing the radio sky in new ways, probing the sky on timescales hitherto poorly-explored. Sensitive image-plane surveys are discovering new kinds of […]

March 21, 2023

Last Friday’s ADAP celebrated the anniversary of the opening of the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station in 1967 . After Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station closed in 1981, the antenna was dismantled […]

March 20, 2023

IAU Symposium 380, “Cosmic Masers: Proper Motion toward the Next-Generation Large Projects” is being held this week in Kagoshima, Japan. Cosmic masers — the naturally occurring microwave analogues of lasers […]

March 17, 2023

NASA’s Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station was opened on this day in 1967. The 85-foot (26 metre) antenna at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, supported space missions until the station closed in […]

March 16, 2023

The Parkes Ultra-–Wide-bandwidth Low-frequency (UWL) receiver was installed on Murriyang, the 64 m Parkes Radio Telescope, in 2018. Observations with the UWL provide an instantaneous frequency coverage from 704 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.