We present long-slit spectroscopy of the elliptical galaxy M32, obtained with the 8 m Subaru telescope at Mauna Kea, the 1.5 m Tillinghast telescope at the F. L. Whipple Observatory, and the 4 m Mayall telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The spectra cover the Lick index red spectral region, as well as higher order Balmer lines in the

Recently some correlations between low cloud cover and solar activity have been reported in the literature. In this paper we show how the flux of GCR is found to correlate positively with the low clouds and negatively with higher clouds, supporting previous theoretical predictions linking atmospheric ionization by cosmic rays and cloud cover at

We present full Stokes observations from SPINOR (Spectro-Polarimeter for INfrared and Optical Regions, at the Dunn Solar Telescope) in the Ca II infrared triplet and the He I multiplet at 1083 nm from which some properties of spicules have been derived. There are important advantages in multiline observations, particularly from different elements

Two time series, taken simultaneously in the G-band and in white-light, and corrected for telescope aberrations and turbulence perturbations using the method of phase diversity, are employed to study the motions of granules and G-band bright points (GBPs) in the moat of an old regular sunspot. Local correlation tracking and feature tracking have

The bright southern binary star β Centauri (HR5267) has been observed with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) and spectroscopically with the European Southern Observatory Coude Auxiliary Telescope and Swiss Euler telescope at La Silla. The interferometric observations have confirmed the binary nature of the primary component and

Here we discuss the properties of star cluster winds in the supercritical, catastrophic cooling regime. We demonstrate that catastrophic cooling inhibits superwinds and that after a rapid phase of accumulation of the ejected material within the star-forming volume, a new stationary isothermal regime, supported by the ionizing radiation from the