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We report on optical spectroscopy of the black hole candidate MAXI J1305-704 (ATel #4024; #4030) using SALT and the Robert Stobie Spectrograph. On 2012 April 15 (20:40-23:00 UTC) and 16 (22:30-01:40 UTC) we obtained 2 hrs of continuous spectroscopy using a slit width of 0.6 arcsec, resulting in a wavelength coverage of 4050-5100 Angstrom and a

We present a light-curve analysis and radial velocity study of KOI-74, an eclipsing A star + white dwarf binary with a 5.2-d orbit. Aside from new spectroscopy covering the orbit of the system, we used 212 d of publicly available Kepler observations and present the first complete light-curve fitting to these data, modelling the eclipses and

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We provide manganese abundances (corrected for the effect of the hyperfine structure) for a large number of stars in the dwarf spheroidal galaxies Sculptor and Fornax, and for a smaller number in the Carina and Sextans dSph galaxies. Abundances had already been determined for a number of other elements in these galaxies, including α and iron-peak

A status report of the 4-years long ESO Large Program, aimed at monitoring and characterizing Main Belt Comets. The program is 50% completed. Some of the MBCs were observed active. In some cases, the dust is the aftermath of an impact.