The 4-m New Robotic Telescope (NRT): status of the optomechanical systems
The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is currently under conceptual phase design, will be sited on the Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) in La Palma (Canary...
The 4MOST–Gaia Purely Astrometric Quasar Survey (4G-PAQS)
The 4MOST–Gaia Purely Astrometric Quasar Survey (4G-PAQS) will carry out the first large-scale, colour-independent quasar survey selected solely on the basis of...
The 99942 Apophis observational campaign at the Canary Islands observatories during its 2021 close approach: preliminary results
Potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 99942 Apophis, with a diameter 380-393 m (Licandro et al. 2016), came to its 2021 close approach on March 6, 2021, at 01:06...
The Absolute Proper Motion of the Small Magellanic Cloud a Progress Report
We present a progress report on a project aimed at determining the absolute proper motion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), with respect to background Quasi...
The absorbing cells for the NIR spectrograph GIANO-B@TNG
In 2014 TNG also offered GIANO-B to the scientific community, providing a near-infrared (NIR) cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph covering 0.97 − 2.45 µm at a...
The Abundances of Oxygen and Carbon in the Solar Photosphere
A series of recent studies has placed the best estimates of the photospheric abundances of carbon and oxygen at log ɛ =8.39 and 8.66, respectively. These values...
The acoustic cutoff frequency of the Sun and the solar cycle
The acoustic cutoff frequency - highest frequency for acoustic solar eigenmodes-is an important parameter of the solar atmosphere because it determines the...