This new CalendarStars was made possible by many people from TNG staff and others. In particular G. Andreuzzi leaded the colored observations at the telescope, J. Aguiar Cárdenes captured the colors of the heavens, C. Muñoz distilled them into numbers and finally A.Harutyunyan set up all the rainbow in this TNG2011. V. Guido sketched-up the Galileo Telescope model for the front cover, the same you can find now in GoogleEarth: try it! (download this file and open it with GoogleEarth,...

The call for the 2011A semester is now open with a closing date of 1 September 2010. You can see the details here The call is similar to the one in 2010B with a single committee to allocate EC supported time across the entire OPTICON network. The main differences since 2010B are: UKIRT is not available due to its switch to a new operating mode. Time is available on the WHT in this call Significantly more time is available at NOT and Calar Alto (Note that all 2011A applications to NOT...

The AOT22/10B Time Allocations and Schedule are available on line. Please visit below pages for more details. Allocations Schedule

È prevista per giovedì 17 giugno la partenza da Roma alla volta dell’isola di La Palma, Canarie, dei due ragazzi che rappresenteranno l’Italia alle Olimpiadi Internazionali di Astronomia, previste per il prossimo autunno in Crimea. Marco Monaci (liceo scientifico «Guglielmo Marconi» di Grosseto) e Simone Polimeni (liceo scientifico «Leonardo da Vinci» di Reggio Calabria) vincitori delle Olimpiadi Italiane di Astronomia per la categoria Senior, iniziano la loro preparazione alle gare con...

The LBT Italian Call for Proposals 2010B is available on line.Please visit the page for more details.

CALL FOR PROPOSAL TNG & REMalso featuring VLP and GTVI   AOT 22 (2010B)  is now open for proposalsApplications for observing time for the period August  1st,  2010  - January 31st, 2011are solicited and should be submitted byFriday 16th Apr, 2010, 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...

Call for Proposals to be supported via the OPTICON Trans-National Access programme in semester 2010B Within the OPTICON contract under FP7, its Trans-National Access programme will move towards even greater integration and coordination of the participating telescopes. As part of this move, the funding for the programme will be pooled, and the proposals for OPTICON time at all the telescopes will be reviewed together by a single international Time Allocation Committee (TAC) to ensure...

The AOT21/10A Schedule is available on line. Please visit the page for more details.

In the last 15 years more than 400 exoplanets (planets orbiting around stars other than the Sun and thus beyond the Solar System) have been discovered. They span a wide range of masses, distances from their parent star and orbital properties and pose one of the most important problems of modern astrophysics. In fact, despite of the large amount of data collected so far, the mechanisms involved in the formation and evolution of planets are poorly understood. In particular, their "childhood"...