Searching for dust orbiting around activated asteroid 596 Scheila by means of stellar occultations
596 Scheila is a main belt asteroid classified from 2010, when it presented cometary appearance, like a Main Belt Comet (MBC). We only known around a dozen of...
Searching for emission-line galaxies: The UCM survey
We are carrying out a long-term project with the main purposes of finding and analyzing low metallicity galaxies. A very small number of very low metallicity...
Searching for emission-line objects in external galaxies
We are carrying on several surveys in nearby galaxies aiming to find, catalogue and study old and young emission-line objects as H II regions, Planetary Nebulae...
Distant clusters of galaxies provide a powerful method to study the formation and evolution of galaxies, and large scale structure of the Universe. However, the...
Searching for planetary transits around M dwarfs with telescope networks
As of today, hundreds of extrasolar planets have been discoverd, and thousands of candidates are waiting for confirmation. Although we already have discovered...
Searching for Planetary Transits in the Lupus Galactic Plane
A 52' × 52' field in the Lupus Galactic plane was observed with the ANU 1m telescope for 53 nights during 2005 and 2006 in a search for transiting Hot Jupiter...