National Links

CASS – CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science

www.csiro.au/org/CASS.html
CSIRO’s provider of technology and services for radio astronomy, spacecraft tracking and space sciences.

CAASTRO – Centre of excellence for All-sky ASTROphysics

www.caastro.org.au/
CAASTRO is a conglomeration of six institutions around Australia with research interests in all-sky astrophysics funded by the Australian Research Council.
CAASTRO will receive more than $28M in funding over the next seven years to pursue these activities. CAASTRO will be led by The University of Sydney, in conjunction with the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Swinburne University, complemented by a group of world-class Australian and international partners.

Australia and New Zealand SKA Project (anzSKA)

www.ska.gov.au
Curtin is a founding partner in the Australian SKA project. Up to a hundred times more powerful than the world’s largest existing telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be one of the largest and most ambitious international science projects ever devised. It will help to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe.
Australia has been shortlisted after a rigorous selection process as one of the two sites identified as potential locations for the SKA.
The principal collaborators in the Australian SKA project are the Australian Government, the State of Western Australia and Australia’s premier science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Several Australian universities are also actively engaged, with other state governments likely to be involved in due course. International partners include the USA, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India and several European countries.

Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)

www.aao.gov.au
The Anglo-Australian Observatory is an organisation jointly funded by the Australian and British governments, which looks after two of Australia’s premier optical telescopes.

Australian National University (ANU)

www.anu.edu.au
The Australian National University operates telescopes at the Mt Stromlo Observatory and the Siding Spring Observatory.

Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF)

www.atnf.csiro.au
ATNF is the astronomical arm of CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science (see above) and is one of Australia’s largest astronomical groups, managing 3 radio telescopes in NSW and playing host to a large number of astronomers and engineers.

Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC)

www.cdscc.nasa.gov
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is one third of NASA’s Deep Space Network, and provides a necessary communications link to deep space probes.

IPS Radio and Space Services

www.ips.gov.au
IPS Radio and Space Services is one of the four groups running the Learmonth Solar Observatory. On their site you can find all you want about Learmonth, and check out the space weather on your way.

University of Tasmania

fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/physics/Research.asp
The University of Tasmania astronomy department runs and operates four different telescopes across the southern states of Australia.

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA)

asa.astronomy.org.au
The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) was formed in 1966 as the organisation of professional astronomers in Australia. Membership of the ASA is open to anyone contributing to the advancement of Australian astronomy or a closely related field.