ASKAP, moon, and Venus
May 25, 2018
The picture above, taken last week, shows an ASKAP antenna at sunset, with a crescent moon and Venus further to the right. As Venus orbits the Sun closer than the […]
The Guinness World Record for Stargazing?
May 24, 2018
As part of Stargazing Live this week, an attempt was made to break the Guinness World Record for stargazing. The world record for the most people stargazing across multiple venues […]
ATNF Colloquium – Exploring the fossil record of cluster assembly: the intracluster light
May 23, 2018
by Mireia Montes (UNSW) Abstract: An enigmatic component present in galaxy clusters is the intracluster light (ICL), made up of stars that are not bound to any particular galaxy but […]
Stargazing Live this week
May 22, 2018
ABC’s Stargazing Live returns to our tv screens this week. CSIRO’s Lisa Harvey-Smith is back as a roving reporter, along with series hosts Professor Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro, and […]
Ultra-Wide-band Low installation
May 21, 2018
Last week saw the installation of a new Ultra-wide-band receiver on the Parkes telescope, with a crew from Marsfield accompanying the receiver to Parkes to help local staff install and […]
ASKAP spots a Crab giant burst – by Keith Bannister
May 18, 2018
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millsecond-duration bursts of radio waves that come from outer space. Astronomers have known about them since 2007, but much about FRBs remains a mystery. This […]
ATNF Colloquium – Absorption processes in radio astronomy: Facilitating a unique discovery space
May 17, 2018
by Joe Callingham (ASTRON) Abstract: One of the most common assumptions in radio astronomy is that the continuum spectrum of a radio source follows a simple power-law. Such an assumption […]
Ultra-Wide-band Low installation
May 16, 2018
Yesterday saw the installation of a new Ultra-wide-band receiver on the Parkes telescope. The receiver is capable of detecting frequencies between 700 MHz and 4.2 GHz — a much wider […]
Australia Telescope Compact Array
May 15, 2018
As mentioned in yesterday’s ADAP, last week the ATCA had an array reconfiguration, with the antennas moving from the compact H168 array into the extended 6D array. The four 6-km […]
Australia Telescope Steering Committee
May 14, 2018
The Australia Telescope National Facility Steering Committee met at the Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri from 10-11 May 2018. Members took advantage of a reconfiguration of the array, underway […]
Catching a Vela glitch
May 11, 2018
As pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars, lose energy, their rotation slows down. However, for some pulsars this spin-down is interrupted by occasional abrupt spin-up events known as glitches. A glitch […]
Letter of Intent signing with NARIT
May 10, 2018
Yesterday, a signing ceremony was held at Marsfield with a visiting delegation from the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT). NARIT has been funded to construct a 40 m […]
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.