Farewell Robin!
October 26, 2018
ATNF marked the ending of an era yesterday with a farewell for Robin Wark, who has provided observer support for ATNF facilities for the last 34 years. Joining CSIRO at […]
ASKAP Community Workshop 2018
October 25, 2018
Today is the second day of a two-day ASKAP Community Workshop being held at CASS’s Marsfield site. The workshop will review progress through the Early Science program and help facilitate […]
ASKAP Community Workshop 2018
October 24, 2018
Today is the first day of a two-day ASKAP Community Workshop being held at CASS’s Marsfield site. The workshop will review progress through the Early Science program and help facilitate […]
ATNF Colloquium – MeerKAT early results, status and plans
October 23, 2018
by Fernando Camilo (SARAO) Abstract: After more than a decade in the making, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescope was inaugurated in July 2018 and is now […]
Farewell to Lisa Harvey-Smith
October 22, 2018
Marsfield staff gathered on Friday to farewell Lisa Harvey-Smith and congratulate her on her appointment as Australia’s first Women in STEM Ambassador . Lisa joined CSIRO nine years ago, and […]
Cricket on the Dish
October 19, 2018
As noted in yesterday’s ADAP, Cricket Australia last week launched its new junior development program, Cricket Blast, at the Parkes Observatory. The kids played cricket with The Dish in the […]
Cricket at the Dish
October 18, 2018
Last week, Cricket Australia launched its new junior development program, Cricket Blast, at the Parkes Observatory. The event featured dozens of kids and a number Big Bash League players: Chris […]
ATNF Colloquium – Toward detecting cosmic rays at the Murchison Radio-astronomy observatory
October 17, 2018
by Justin Bray (University of Manchester) Abstract: Recent work with LOFAR has shown that aperture-array radio telescopes are highly effective at measuring the radio footprint from a cosmic ray interacting […]
Warning signs at Parkes
October 16, 2018
During the CASS Executive visit to the Parkes Observatory yesterday, some new signage was spotted on the exterior of one of the buildings on site. As previously documented , wildlife […]
How big is the Parkes dish?
October 15, 2018
When it was opened in 1961, the Parkes dish was described as being 210 feet in diameter. With the adoption of the metric system in Australia, the dish is now […]
ASKAP detection of FRBs – (by Shannon et al.)
October 12, 2018
It took the world’s telescopes 10 years to find the first 30 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Using ASKAP, a team of scientists have been able to find 20 in one […]
The LMC supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 – (by Roper et al.)
October 11, 2018
Roper et al. have recently compared two Chandra X-ray images to measure the expansion of a supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The images above show (at left) […]
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.