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Announcement of Opportunity for Observing Time in Semester 2014A 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
ING Announcement of Opportunity for Observing Time in Semester 2014A.
ING Hosts the 11th NEON Observing School, 2013 17 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
ING hosts the 11th NEON Observing School from July 14 to July 27, 2013. NEON stands for the Network of European Observatories in the North. The NEON Observing Schools are supported by OPTICON.
ING Schedules and Time Allocations Semester 2013B Released 20 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
ING schedules and time allocations for semester 2013B already available online.
The Rapid Assembly of an Elliptical Galaxy at a Redshift of 2.3 28 May 2013 | 04:00 pm
A rare encounter between two gas-rich galaxies indicates a solution to the problem of how giant elliptical galaxies developed so quickly in the early universe and why they stopped producing stars soon...
Discovery of the First Isolated Compact Elliptical (cE) Galaxy 24 Apr 2013 | 11:00 pm
Astronomers have used the ACAM instrument on the William Herschel Telescope in the discovery of a unique, isolated, compact elliptical galaxy.
A Dust-Obscured Massive Maximum-Starburst Galaxy in the Early Universe 19 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
Astronomers of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) project announce in the journal Nature the discovery of an unusually massive, maximum-starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34, or ...
Elephant's Trunk Nebula 20 Mar 2013 | 04:00 pm
A New View of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula.
Accretion on a Very Rapidly Spinning White Dwarf Observed Using an L3CCD 1 Mar 2013 | 02:00 am
Recent William Herschel Telescope observations have revealed a new view of the accretion process in V455 And, an intermediate polar with a very rapidly spinning white dwarf. This white dwarf, which is...
Two new ING technical notes on arc maps have been published 21 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
No 133 Arc maps for the CuAr and CuNe lamps when used with IDS/Red+2 http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/observing/manuals/ps/tech_notes/tn133.pdf No 135 Arc maps for the CuAr and CuNe lamps when used wi...
Announcement of Opportunity for Observing Time in Semester 2013B 19 Feb 2013 | 12:00 am
ING Announcement of Opportunity for Observing Time in Semester 2013B.