The moon has been in the news recently, inspiring a search through the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. The image above of a full moon over the ATCA was taken by Graeme Carrad on the 2nd of April 2007, during a four-week shutdown of the array. Although primarily for the installation of the new 7mm (30 to 50 GHz) receivers, the shutdown provided the opportunity to carry out a number of other larger projects on the array. This included the rapid changeover of one on-line computer, installation of the last two shielded racks in the antenna pedestal rooms, replacement of three antenna uninterruptible power supplies and, in four weeks of activity, the installation of five receiver translators and outfitting of all six antennas with 7-mm receivers! In order to efficiently carry out this work on all antennas, the five antennas on ther east-west rail track were moved to closely spaced stations for this four week period. (Credit: CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive)
