Erik Lensson – happy retirement !

July 3, 2015

Photo by John Sarkissian (CASS) All the best to Erik Lensson (pictured) who retired at the end of June. With no further delay, he’s on his way to go fishing […]

ATNF Colloquium – SETI and CASPER

July 2, 2015

by Dan Werthimer (University of California, Berkeley) Abstract. Dan Werthimer will discuss the search for radio, infrared, and optical signals from other civilizations. Berkeley’s SETI@home project analyzes Arecibo data using […]

Another Leap Second

July 1, 2015

A positive leap second is being introduced, a rare event, to keep the time close to the mean solar time. The sequence of dates for the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) […]

Michelle Storey’s retirement party

June 30, 2015

Photo by Flornes Yuen (CASS) All the best to Michelle Storey (pictured) who retires today and had a wonderful retirement party at work yesterday. Speeches and cake, hugs and presents, […]

Rainbow-colored Jet d’Eau in Geneva

June 29, 2015

by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) This photo was taken nearly exactly one year ago during a late afternoon walk along lake Geneva after a busy EWASS 2014 conference session. This year’s […]

Star trails at Boolardy

June 28, 2015

Photo by Andrew Ng (CASS) This was Andrew’s first attempt at astrophotography, with star trails encircling the celestial South Pole. It was a last minute decision to leave the camera […]

Milky Way at Boolardy

June 27, 2015

Photo by Andrew Ng (CASS) A stunning photo of the Milky Way galaxy above Boolardy, where ASKAP is located. After installing the firmware for the second-generation Phase-Array Feeds Andrew Ng […]

Phased-Array Feed installation

June 26, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) A great photo of four 12-m ASKAP antennas. Here antenna 4 is getting a second-generation Phased-Array Feed. The right most ASKAP antenna is part of […]

ASKAP Phased-Array Feed on antenna 5

June 25, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) Another second-generation Phased-Array Feed (PAF) ready for testing on ASKAP. The next antenna to get a wide-field PAF receiver is No 4 – watch this […]

Another Phased-Array Feed hoisted up

June 24, 2015

by the ASKAP team (CASS) This Phased-Array Feed (PAF) is being installed on ASKAP antenna 5. – Click on the image for a better view. The Wajarii-Yamatji name of ASKAP […]

The supernova remnant Puppis A

June 23, 2015

by Estela Reynoso (IAFE, Argentina) Puppis A is the remnant of a supernova explosion which occurred several thousand years ago and now appears as a shell of ~1 deg diameter. […]

Accurate HOPS water maser positions

June 22, 2015

by Andrew Walsh (Curtin University) Accurate positions of water masers made during HOPS, the H 2 O southern Galactic Plane Survey. This image shows the position of just one water […]