The prime objectives of the workshop were to: inform the community about the science opportunities of the Solar Orbiter mission; to provide a forum for sharpening and focussing the science goals; allow the hardware groups and instrument proposers to critically review the payload; establish international contacts and collaborations.

The selection from available commercial market of a set of slides to be used in an habitable pressurised module in space, to draw a 660 mm box out of a rack, up to a completely extracted position in a safely supported configuration, seems in principle not to be a complicated task. That was the first approach taken in the design process of the

We derive some element abundances for the central star of the planetary nebula K648 from analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph spectra (1200-3300 Å). Carbon is found to be approximately 4 times overabundant with respect to solar values, while oxygen is underabundant and silicon about solar, and He/H=0.6. The stellar continuum

File table contains details of the new near-IR stellar library observed to calibrate the Ca II triplet. It includes the indices CaT*, CaT and PaT measured over the final spectra as well as their corresponding errors. The Henry Draper Catalogue number, other names (mainly HR and BD numbers), coordinates, spectral type, luminosity class, apparent

The detection of 1.809 MeV gamma-ray line emission from the Vela region by the COMPTEL telescope presents a direct prove of recent nucleosynthesis activity in this region. It has been suggested that the observed 1.809 MeV emisson could arise from the radioactive decay of 26Al produced by the Vela SNR and/or the nearby Wolf-Rayet star γ2 Vel

A new stellar library at the near-IR spectral region developed for the empirical calibration of the Caii triplet and stellar population synthesis modelling is presented. The library covers the range λλ8348-9020 at 1.5-Å (FWHM) spectral resolution, and consists of 706 stars spanning a wide range in atmospheric parameters. We have defined a new set