In the pictures the crew of the first flight: Gloria Andreuzzi, Manuel González, José San Juan and Gianni Tessicini.

A new page for the outreach at the TNG has been published by the group DyD@T (Divulgacion y didactica en el TNG). The web-page also includes the photo gallery. Please visit the page Outreach for more details.

The AOT21/10A Time allocations are available on line. Please visit the page for more details.

For the coming year 2010 the TNG issues its first CalendarStars. We start with a random selection of images: astronomical objects from our telescope, installations in the Roque de los Muchachos, and twelve representative of our staff describe our daily work. A work made of skies, machines and people, three essential ingredients for any astronomical recipe... Your studies and imagination the rest of it. You may find at the web address below the digital version that you can download for free...

After the follow-up observations of GRB 090423 (the farthest object ever observed by human beings), TNG plays a fundamental role in the study of another important gamma-ray burst: GRB 090426. This is another results obtained by the CIBO (Consorzio Italiano Burst Ottici) collaboration. With observed and rest-frame durations of <2 s and <0.5 s, respectively, this object is classified as a short GRB. Observations performed with DOLoRes@TNG about 0.4 days after the burst clearly showed the...

The Nature journal published the paper based on the TNG observation for the farthest object ever observed by human beings. The content of the article may be seen atSalvaterra, R., et al., 2009, "GRB 090423 at a redshift of z approximately 8.1", Nature, 461, 1258-1260 (29 October 2009) . Here we replicate the content of the press release we published on INAF press release (april 2009). Gamma-Ray Bursts are among the brightest explosions in the universe, and in a few seconds they release a...

The position of software engineer has been fulfilled. TNG welcomes José Guerra.

Observational data taken in June 2008 with DOLoRes-TNG led to the identification in our Galaxy of a new interesting globular cluster.This star system, known as Pfleiderer 2, was discovered in 1977 and classified as a open cluster projected in a rich star field. Recently, BVI photometry performed with DOLoRes allowed to draw its color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and to reveal its true nature.The main CMD features of Pfleiderer 2 are a tilted red giant branch, and a red horizontal branch....

Observational data taken in June 2008 with DOLoRes-TNG led to the identification in our Galaxy of a new interesting globular cluster.This star system, known as Pfleiderer 2, was discovered in 1977 and classified as a open cluster projected in a rich star field. Recently, BVI photometry performed with DOLoRes allowed to draw its color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and to reveal its true nature.The main CMD features of Pfleiderer 2 are a tilted red giant branch, and a red horizontal branch....