The LBT Italian Call for Proposals 2012A is available on line.Please visit the page for more details.

CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REMalso featuring TVI and HAN-GTO AOT 25 (2012A) is now open for proposalsApplications for observing time for the period February 1st, 2012 - July 31st, 2012 are solicited and should be submitted byFriday 14th Oct, 2011, 13:00 UT Application forms and detailed instructions can be downloaded from the TNG web pages. TNG is a 3.58m optical/infrared telescope located at Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory in the island of La Palma (Canary Island). Its...

Starting 5th of September 2011 the three TNG mirrors will be dismounted to be aluminized.   This procedure will see the dismounting of all three mirrors from TNG structure and transport to the WHT telescope, where a full sized vacuum chamber is available.The choice for the period is a compromise between time lost (actual length of the nights), safety during transport on the mountain (bad weather could be really dangerous!) and availability of the chamber in the WHT premises.We foresee to...

INAF has published a call for an "Assegno di ricerca" (a fellowship -like grant) devoted to the HARPS-N project.The idea is to hire a young post-doc (less than 3 years from his/her PhD) devoted to the HARPS-N GTO and commissioning phase at TNG.The appointment is initially for one year with the option to be renovated up to four years, depending on the results and available funds.Deadline for applications 20-SEP-2011. Full info and documents at the following link.For Harps-N info...

An extrasolar planet in the triple stellar system has been discovered at Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). Very few planets are known in this kind of systems. The planet orbits with a period of about 4 years at 2.6 astronomical units from the secondary of the system, HD132563B. The planet mass is about 1.5 Jupiter masses. The primary of the system, HD132563A, was found to have a close stellar companion in a highly eccentric orbit. However, the separation between HD 132563 A and B is...

The AOT24/11B Time Allocations and Schedule are available on line. Please visit the following pages for more details. Allocations Schedule

Full immersion between the telescopes of the Roque de Los Muchachos (La Palma, Canary Islands), for the two young high school students winners of the last edition of the Olimpiadi italiane di astronomia. Andrea Malara and Gabriele Benedetto will visit the island of La Palma from June 16 to June 21, spending their time working at the INAF - FGG offices and visiting different telescopes located in the Observatory of the Roque de Los Muchachos. Andrea and Gabriele together with Stefania...

The LBT Italian Call for Proposals 2011B is available on line.Please visit the page for more details.

INAF headquarters, after evaluation of the candidates, has chosen the three names for the Italian participation in the Harps-N Science Team. The colleagues are Giampaolo Piotto (Padova), Giusi Micela (Palermo) and Alessandro Sozzetto (Torino). They will be the nucleus of the Italian collaborators who will work in the Guaranteed Time, with the main goal of performing the critical radial-velocity follow-up of transiting-planet candidates identified by NASA's Kepler mission, and to monitor...