We present medium-resolution ( /A 500) absolute spectrophotometry of 15 bright and cool (N-type) carbon stars. The observations were made with a cooled grating spectrometer within the J ii, K and L' atmospheric windows (1-4.2 ). The observed C stars were AQ Sgr, RT Cap, RV Cyg, RY Dra, S Sct, T Lyr, TX Psc, TW Oph, VAql, V Cyg, VX And, V460 Cyg, Y

The Two Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) is the most sensitive large scale point source near infrared survey of the Galactic Plane yet attempted. The Galactic plane has been drift-scanned in several regions over the areas -5 deg less than l less than 30 deg, absolute value of b less than or equal to 15 deg and 30 deg less than l less than 180 deg

The technology division of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) is developing a data acquisition system (DAS) for an IR camera to be used at the 1.5m Carlos Sanchez Telescope (TCS) in the Observatorio del Teide (Canary Islands, Spain). This camera will work between a wavelength of 1 and 5 microns and will employ an InSb focal plane array

The Deep Near-Infrared Survey (DENIS) project is the first attempt to carry out a complete digitized survey of the southern sky in the range 1-2.5 micrometers. The main objectives of the program and the main specifications of the camera and of the data processing stream are briefly outlined.

The implicit intergral method that we have already introduced in a previous paper, together with its application to the non-Local Thermal Equilibrium (non-LTE) line formation problem, is considered here for another paradigm problem, namely, the self-consistent temperature correction when computing Local Thermal Equilibrium (LTE) stellar atmosphere

We report on the serendipitous discovery of a Herbig-Haro flow close to the pre-main sequence system HV Tauri. Low resolution spectra indicate a high excitation flow. The profile of emission lines seen at high resolution shows the existence of two velocity components, which are interpreted as emission from a bow shock directed towards the observer