We present the results of a three-year campaign of broad-band photometry in the near-infrared J, H, K and L' bands for a sample of approximately 250 giant stars carried out at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain). Transformations of the Telescopio Carlos Sanchez system into/from several currently used infrared systems are extended to the

ABEL is currently at the beginning of the design phase at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canaris. The instrument will be equipped with the 256 X 256 Santa Barbara Research Corporation InSb FPA which will provide a working spectral range from 1 to 5 microns. For image mode three different platescales are envisaged: 0.2 inch/pixel, to be used in the

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A detailed NLTE investigation of Fe I lines is carried out for the MACKKL quiet solar atmospheric model using a very realistic iron atomic model. This improved atomic model consists of about 250 multiplets and nearly 500 UV, optical and IR bound-bound and bound-free transitions including the regime near the Fe I continuum. The authors find and

We present the continuation of our analysis of narrowband [O III] images, obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), of planetary nebulae (PNs) in the Magellanic Clouds. Six objects, five in the Large Magellanic Cloud, are observed as part of the General Observer program. An additional 15 objects are retrieved from the HST archive. The

We imaged the field of GRB980329 in the optical and in the near-infrared starting 20 hours after the event, at the ESO NTT, at the NOT, at the APO and at the TIRGO. In the first night we detect an object of R = 23.6 +/- 0.2 within the BeppoSAX NFI error box at the same position as a transient VLA source proposed as the radio afterglow of this GRB