About AAL

Astronomy Australia Limited is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee whose members are all Australian universities and research organisations with significant astronomical research capability.

Welcome to Astronomy Australia Ltd

Our vision: Astronomers in Australia will have access to the best astronomical research infrastructure.

AAL will achieve its vision by: Engaging with Australian astronomers to advance the national research infrastructure priorities of the Australian astronomy Decadal Plan; Advising the Australian Government on future investments in national astronomical research infrastructure; and managing investments in national astronomical research infrastructure as required.

16th January 2012: NeCTAR announces the results of its Request for Proposals, with AAL's "All-Sky Virtual Observatory" being named as one of five preferred Virtual Laboratory projects. This project is the first stage of a federated system of astronomy datasets and would federate data from SkyMapper and simulation data from gSTAR.

14th January 2012: Prof Warrick Couch and Prof Matthew Colless attended the GMT2 Mirror Casting Ceremony at the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory (SOML) at the University of Arizona. Images from the event can be found on our GMT webpage.

News Archive

30th January 2012: Optical Telescopes Advisory Committee OTAC (Swinburne University of Technology)

2nd February 2012: Antarctic Astronomy Advisory Committee AAAC (Teleconference)

3rd February 2012: Astronomy eResearch Advisory Committee AeRAC (Swinburne University of Technology)

17th February 2012: AAL Board (Swinburne University of Technology)

Full meetings schedule