The International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Roque de los Muchachos (ORM, La Palma) and Teide (OT, Tenerife) observatories invites applications for the International Time Programme (ITP) on the telescopes installed at these Observatories. The current call (for the periods starting with semester 2023B=AOT48) is open until February 28, 2023. The call can be downloaded here. Proposals should be international in their range of participants and are expected to involve astronomers from...

Starting from December 1st, with the end of Dr. Ennio Poretti’s 5-years term, the FGG Patronato appointed Adriano Ghedina, former Technical Coordinator of the TNG, as Director of the Fundación Galileo Galilei. Adriano Ghedina was born in Cortina d’Ampezzo near Belluno in 1970, and obtained his degree in Astronomy at the University of Padua. He has been a staff member of Telescopio Nazionale Galileo for 25 years – starting as responsible of the Optics and later the Adaptive Optics and, with...

In April 2019 a group of undergraduate students from the University of Florence (Italy) had the unique opportunity to perform observations at Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). They collected images and spectra of spiral galaxies with the DOLORES (Device Optimized for the LOw RESolution) instrument operating it from the TNG control room, under the supervision of TNG staff and their professors. The objects to be observed were carefully selected by the students themselves, but they did not...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, pioneers of quantum physics with their experiments on the quantum entanglement, a sort of connection between very distant particles: in a pair of entangled particles, everything happening to one also affects the other, regardless of their distance. In 2018, Anton Zeilinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and his team used the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) together with the William Herschel...

Construction and operation of ground astrophysical facilities can be affected by adverse weather conditions. Some weather risks are obvious, but still there are times when an unforeseen event distorts the perception of how relevant a climate-related risk is. On the other hand, adverse weather conditions can delay or entirely halt the construction project of an astronomical facility. The impact of weather risks becomes stronger if the facility is built at a site far from urban areas, where...

The Large-scale surveys as bridges between spectroscopy and photometry meeting belongs to the "RRLyr and Cepheid stars" series. Previous editions were held in Visegrad (Hungary) in 2015, in Niepolomice (Poland) in 2017, in Cloudcroft (USA) in 2019. This fourth event was scheduled for 2021, but the pandemic forced its postponement by one year. The community had spoken in favour of a meeting to be held mainly in presence in the La Palma island. The purpose of the series is to bring together...

Listed below are the TNG nights scheduled in the semester AOT46/2022B. The allocations for the same period can be found here.The table summarizes the number of offered nights (N_O), the requested nights (N_R), the pressure (P=N_R/N_O) and the number of submitted proposals (N_P) for each of the four calls. Call N_O N_R P N_P INAF 29 56.2 1.9 32 CAT 21 57.5 2.7 19 OPTICON 10 13.4 1.4 7 CCI 7 7 1.0 1 The figure shows the behaviour of the...

The OPTICON call for Transnational Access in Semester 2023A is OPEN and will close on 31st August 2022   We are pleased to announce that the 2023A call for observing time at optical/IR telescopes supported via OPTICON-Radionet Pilot project is now open. The call will close on 31st August 2022 at 23.59 UT. The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo offers 10 nights from April 1st, 2023 to September 30th, 2023. Monitoring mode is subjected to severe limitations at TNG. The schedule is dominated by...