The ASKAP Update for August includes reports on survey progress, Pawsey supercomputer maintenance, a new project aimed at improving ASKAP’s development capacity and ASKAP’s impact at the IAU General Assembly. The image above shows an analysis of ASKAP astrometry using a correction derived by comparing the position of the same sources across multiple beams in the ASKAP footprint to a beam identified as the reference. The correction significantly improves the consistency of source positions across an ASKAP field, but investigations are still underway to determine how the result compares to catalogues derived from other telescopes. Although the correction is self-consistent within the field, it may leave a bulk shift of all sources across the entire field due to the uncertain absolute calibration of the reference beam. The fact that it is possible to derive a high-quality astrometry correction suggests there is a good chance of being able to eliminate the calibration errors at their source or at least apply routine corrections in post-processing. (Image credit: Emil Lenc)