The brand new TNG calendar for year 2016 is ready. Astronomy has always tried to look farther and beyond. Our telescope and instrumentations are designed to look into light and extract what it not at sight.   What is essential may be invisible to the eye.   This year we try to convey some more content, using a little of augmented reality. You will have all the graphic content at hand and if you have a smartphone with a camera, just point it to the paper calendar to see beyond. An home...

CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG AOT 33 (2016A) is now open for proposalsApplications for observing time for the period March 1st, 2016 - August 31st, 2016 are solicited and should be submitted byMonday 16th Nov, 2015, 12:00 UT   This semester the available time offered via INAF-TAC is 52 nights. See at the bottom for a detailed schedule breakdown. See below for the additional 20 nights available at NOT telescope. REM telescope is not offered for this semester.   Recommended mode is...

The instrument HARPS-N is the jewel of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. During its first three years of operation, its performances put it on the top of the world list of spectrographs dedicated to the search for exoplanets. However, not surprisingly, recently published papers show that HARPS-N is effective in several research fields. A proof comes from the observations of the comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), performed on December 2013 by a science team leaded by P. Rousselot (Universite' de...

Ladies and Gentlemen The OPTICON common TAC call for EU supported access to telescopes in semester 2016A has been opened. It will close at exactly 23:59 UT on Sunday August 31st 2015. There is no prize for submitting at the last moment and late proposals will not be accepted. Note that little or no technical support will be available over the weekend, so please make your submission in plenty of time. The announcement is here and you can see the details of the number of nights at each...

The constellation of Cassiopea is clearly visible in the sky of the Northern Hemisphere for almost the whole year. It can be recognized by its W shaped pattern of the 5 bright stars, but another star, modest but still visible to the naked eye, has just revealed its secret. Its name is just a catalogue entry: HD219134, but now has come under the spotlight. Astronomers have now teased out that secret: a planet in a 3-day orbit that transits, or crosses in front of its star, which is just 21...

The AOT32/15A schedule and allocations are available online.

From the results of the Kepler satellite, we know that finding an Earth size planet in the habitable zone of its host star is possible. However, estimating its mass, which will likely be possible only with the radial velocity (RV) technique, is much more difficult.Stellar signal is perturbed by several factors as convection, granulation, pulsations or active regions; the RV variation induced by such effects is one order of magnitude larger than the effect of the mass of the planet over its...

The two young winners of the 'Olimpiadi Italiane di Astronomia', Silvia Neri (Liceo Scientifico Statale “L. da Vinci”, Reggio Calabria) and Mariastella Cascone (Liceo Scientifico Statale “G. Galilei”, Catania) visited La Palma and TNG from June 19 to June 24. Silvia and Mariastella, together with Gaetano Valentini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo) and Angela Misiano (SAIt – Planetario Pitagora, Reggio Calabria), thanks to the TNG staff, spent the 21st and 22nd of June visiting the...

The project began in 2009 as a collaboration between the Art School Manolo Blahnik of Santa Cruz de La Palma and the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, with the aim of connecting the students with the world of astronomy and especially with the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands), site of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. With this project, one of the students of the Art School had the possibility to realize an astronomical artwork. The project started with a talk...