About CRAIA

The CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive (CRAIA) holds a collection of over 20,000 images and other digital assets that relate to the history of radio astronomy in Australia, from 1940 to the present day. Early images were taken by professional photographers at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics and the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). The original negatives, photographs and slides were scanned, and include those of people, telescopes, events, observatory sites, engineering and other technical work, and include scientific results. This collection is maintained by staff at ATNF.

Getting Started

Digital Rights Management

CRAIA images owned by CSIRO

For assets taken on or after 50 years prior to today’s date the copyright is held by CSIRO (© CSIRO). These are provided with a Creative Commons by 4.0 licence. These assets must include a credit line  “Credit: CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive“. There are no other copyright restrictions on these assets.  

Under Australian law, for assets owned by CSIRO but taken prior to 50 years before today’s date, the copyright period has expired and there are no copyright restrictions. However, CSIRO requests that the credit line “Credit: CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive” be included with all CRAIA assets.

CRAIA images not owned by CSIRO

All rights reserved. Please contact the copyright holder regarding the supply and use of this asset.

Publications and further information

Authors are advised that they will need to follow the requirements of specific publishers. 

Contact Us

For help and/or to send any feedback on the archive please contact us using the email address below.