Panoramic views of Mopra, part 1
July 12, 2018
The Mopra 22m radio telescope is located near Coonabarabran and the Siding Spring Observatory. Although no longer offered as a National Facility telescope, the telescope continues to be used by […]
ATNF Colloquium – Polarization Archetypes in Protostellar Disks and Cores: The ALMA view and beyond (SKA)
July 11, 2018
by Josep Miquel Girart (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai) Abstract: Linear polarization observations with ALMA is allowing to study the dust polarization properties at disk and core scales towards low […]
RadioAstron 7th Anniversary
July 10, 2018
The RadioAstron satellite, Spektr-R, was launched 7 years ago this month. The satellite was placed in a ~9 day orbit around the Earth — which takes it most of the […]
ASKAP PAF and Antennas
July 9, 2018
The next Array Release of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is imminent. Late last year the last of the 36 antennas was outfitted with its Phased Array Feed […]
International Women in Engineering Day
July 6, 2018
International Women in Engineering Day was celebrated recently, with the SKA telescope webpages featuring an article that asked a number of women, including CASS’s Mia Baquiran and Suzy Jackson, who […]
2018 ICRAR/CASS Radio School
July 5, 2018
The Radio School teaches the fundamentals of Radio Astronomy to participants and postdoctoral scientists at the PhD level or above. With the advent of science operations on ASKAP and MWA […]
ATNF Colloquium – Cleaning radio interferometric images using a spherical wavelet decomposition
July 4, 2018
by Chris Skipper (Manchester) Abstract: The deconvolution, or cleaning, of radio interferometric images requires that model visibilities are calculated from a list of clean components, in order that the contribution […]
The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, part two
July 3, 2018
Yesterday’s ADAP showed the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in full: today’s is a detailed view of the surface. As part of the renovation by the CAMRAS foundation, the dish was removed […]
The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope
July 2, 2018
The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope is a 25m dish in the Netherlands. At the time of its inauguration in 1956 it was the largest radio telescope in the world (but in […]
The Emu in the Sky
June 29, 2018
A number of Aboriginal groups across Australia have stories of the Emu in the Sky , which is traced out by the clouds of gas and dust along the Milky […]
The ATCA at night
June 28, 2018
The Australia Telescope Compact Array is not usually illuminated at night but on occasions, usually for filming or photographic shoots, the lights are switched on, as illustrated above (Image credit: […]
Linear polarization in SN1987A – (by Zanardo et al.)
June 27, 2018
Zanardo et al. have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array to make the first detection of linear polarization of in the radio emission from the remnant of supernova 1987A in […]
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.