The AOT27/2013A Time allocations are available on line. Please visit the page for more details.

The international conference “Brown Dwarfs come of Age”, will be held from May 20 to May 24, 2013 in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands). Main Topics: Formation and early evolution of brown dwarfs Angular momentum and disk evolution in very low mass systems Large scale surveys Deep surveys Brown dwarfs in binary systems The lower end of the IMF Planets around brown dwarfs Ultracool atmospheres Spectroscopy of brown dwarfs Time domain phenomena in brown dwarfs: activity and weather ...

"We may also confide a little in what Galileo called the courtesy of Nature, by virtue of which a ray of light from an unexpected source will sometimes illuminate topics at first believed inaccessible to our speculations [...]. Let us therefore hope, and study." G. Schiaparelli, La vita sul pianeta Marte, 1893 TNG CalendarStars 2013.120 years later the efforts of trained people at study and work continue to expand the puzzling picture of the heavens above this planet, discovering orbits...

The observations carried out in 2004, 2006 and 2007 with the adaptive optics module (AdOpt@TNG), mounted on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), reveal a new double star (0.35" separation) in TYCHO 40-501-1, 900parsec far. 2006 and 2007 spectra with the high resolution echelle spectrograph (SARG), mounted in the same telescope, confirmed the imaging detection and contributed to fix the spectral types of the two separated stars whose magnitudes now are known. There are strong considerations...

The new INAF TAC for TNG, LBT and REM has been selected.The members are now: Enrico Cappellaro (OA Padova, chair) Manuela Magliocchetti (IFSI Roma) Marcella Marconi (OA Capodimonte) Luigi Pulone (OA Roma) Roberto Rampazzo (OA Padova) Beate Stelzer (OA Palermo) Gian Paolo Tozzi (OA Arcetri) Matteo Viel (OA Trieste) Elena Zucca (OA Bologna)   Lina Tomasella (OA Padova, secretary) The first meeting will take place in Padova during Decembre 2012.

We inform you that, due to technical reasons concentrating on the coming Friday 19th October, the deadline for the proposal submission for TNG and REM has been postponed to Monday 22-OCT-2012 13:00 UT.Enjoy the weekend!

CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REM AOT 27 (2013A) is now open for proposalsApplications for observing time for the period February 1st, 2013 - July 31st, 2013 are solicited and should be submitted byFriday 19th Oct, 2012, 13:00 UT TNG is a 3.58m optical/infrared telescope located at Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory in the island of La Palma (Canary Island). Its primary mirror is corrected by Active Optics and it is equipped with 3 instruments which offer imaging and...

Call for Proposals to be supported via the OPTICON Trans-National Access programme in semester 2013A. With the new OPTICON contract expected to run until 2016, its Trans-National Access programme continues towards integration and coordination of the participating telescopes. As part of this move, the funding for the programme has been pooled, and the proposals for OPTICON time at all the telescopes are being reviewed together by a single international Time Allocation Committee (TAC) to...

GIANO is the new near infrared echelle spectrograph of the TNG, which can yield, in a single exposure, 0.9-2.5 micron spectra at a resolution R~50,000. On July 12th, 2012 the container with the instrument safely arrived at the TNG. In just 4 days the instrument has been successfully unloaded, mounted, integrated and interfaced at the Nasmyth A focus by the GIANO & TNG Teams. "The challenge of first light has been successfully achieved, now work must go on toward outstanding...