AAO-Macquarie

03/04/2020

Come and work at AAO Macquarie in our Data team!

08/03/2020

We celebrate International Women's Day following our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. These are some of the great women working at AAO-MQ.

Tayyaba Zafar is a Lecturer, an astronomer, MANIFEST instrument Project Scientist, and the first women from Pakistan who took a trip to Antarctica under . She says: “Take your space and let your universe expand”.

Rebecca Brown is an optical engineer that works on optical fibres and their positioning technologies. Her current research involves optimising integral field units called hexabundles which gather light from distant galaxies to enable astronomers to understand the origins and dynamics of galaxies.

Summer Luo, Administrator, Finance & Staff at Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University. with PRIDE

Katrina Sealey is the COO of the AAO Consortium and leads the Research Data and Software team at the AAO-MQ combining her two passions, astronomy and enabling others to reach their potential. She successfully led the AAO-MQ Athena Swan accreditation process.

Celestina Saavedra Lacombe is an electrical engineer and PM new to projects involving bespoke technology and research. Coming from the more mundane 'real-world’ industries, she is excited for the opportunity to test her abilities and resilient approach to PM at AAO-MQ. Other interests: health, cooking, dancing.

Daisy Liu: "Have no fear. Your admin lady is here! Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

Nuria Lorente has been working in optical and radio astronomy and instrumentation for over 25 years. Nuria mostly works in software and systems engineering, and enjoys investigating misbehaving telescope instruments, and solving software and data puzzles, to facilitate world class science.

27/02/2020

We're hiring! Come and work at AAO Macquarie as a Software Engineer, contributing your experience to world-class astronomy instrumentation projects.

Employment opportunities at Macquarie University

03/12/2019

The King of meteors is back middle of this month for a firey show. Read more about this spectecular display and know best viewing times in the following article.

Don't miss this heavenly performance of shooting stars Researcher Dr Tayyaba Zafar Date 4 December 2019 Faculty Faculty of Science and Engineering Topic Our StoriesScience and Technology Share Treat yourself to the year’s best meteor shower, the spectacular Geminids, writes astrophysicist Dr Tayy...

19/09/2019

Latest Data Central release - now live

22/08/2019

The TAIPAN team have achieved the instrument's next major milestone!
After two weeks of commissioning at the UK-Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring observatory the Starbug robots are moving to within 8 microns of their target, as you can see in this movie. This is not a real configuration for astronomical observation, but one we have created to push the system beyond what it would normally be required to do.
Thanks to all the team for this great achievement!

(Movie by Tony Farrell)
^NPFL

06/08/2019

Don’t miss our event for Australia’s National Science Week & Sydney Science Festival: “Unlocking the Cosmos with light”, 2pm Sat 10th Aug, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. ^ALS

Sydney Science Festival celebrates and showcases Sydney’s diverse and multidisciplinary science and innovation community to inspire a sense of city-wide pride, increase the appreciation and recognition of science, and motivate young people to study and practice science, technology, engineering, ar...

05/08/2019

Our AAO astronomer and MANIFEST instrument project scientist, Tayyaba Zafar's story in SBS Urdu.

An astronomer shares her journey of staring at the stars in the sky as a child to developing the world pioneering technology to observe the universe.

05/08/2019

Data Central's Simon O'Toole sharing the underlying technologies of Data Central at the Astronomical Data Archives Meeting 2019.

05/08/2019

Marco Molinaro (INAF) discusses the European Open Science Cloud, aiming for transparent, data-driven solutions in storage, management, analysis, and reuse of research data, across borders and disciplines including science, technology, humanities, social sciences.

04/08/2019

Bruce Berriman could talk to us about the 6 NASA archives hosted at Catlech IPAC, but this would take him all day. Instead he's discussing the challenges facing the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA). At Keck the Observer Owns the Night - there are no restrictions placed on the observer. This allows the observing team to be very creative, but also results in challenges when archiving the data

04/08/2019

Our Astronomical Data Archives Meeting 2019 - has kicked off this morning. Mark Allen (CDS) and Bruce Berriman (Caltech/IPAC) have started the meeting. We have 45+ people from 5 continents joining us this week to discuss and share technologies, tools and ideas.