Since December 1998, photometric observations of the bright and dark side of the Moon have been regularly carried out at Big Bear Solar Observatory, with the aim of determining a precise and absolutely calibrated global albedo of the Earth. The up-to-date synoptic, seasonal and long term variation in the Earth's albedo are reported in this paper

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We report V -band and I -band CCD stellar and surface photometry of the galaxy NGC 404 , taken with HST WFPC2 and the 2.5 m Nordic telescope. The colour-magnitude diagram for the stars in this galaxy is typical of that of spheroidal systems (i.e. it lacks luminous, young stars but contains a large number of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) and Red

Using CGS4 on UKIRT, we have obtained a 1.95-2.45 μm infrared (IR) spectrum of the primary candidate counterpart to the bright Z LMXB GX5-1. IR photometry by Naylor, Charles & Longmore and the astrometry of Jonker et al. had previously identified this star as the most likely counterpart to GX5-1. The spectrum presented here clearly shows Brackett γ

Preliminary results from a detailed spectrophotometric analysis of the blue compact dwarf galaxy (BCD) Mrk 35 are presented. We have performed deep UBVRI broad-band and Hα narrow-band optical observations, near-infrared (JHK s) imaging and long-slit spectroscopy of the galaxy. Mrk 35 is composed of a very young starburst population distributed in a