News Bulletin

January 2018

• Helping to understand the Sun's variability

December 2017

• A Heavy Metal Planet

November 2017

• NOT Observes Interstellar Visitor
• The Brightest Supernova Ever
• The supernovas that just won't die

October 2017

• NOT observes gravitational wave counterpart!

August 2016

• NOT observing schedule Period 54

July 2015

• NOT helps to reveal the nature of SN-Ia progenitors
• NOT observing schedule Period 52

Abril 2015

• New rules for non-Nordic fast-track proposals
• Call for Studentships
• Call for proposals for Period 52

February 2015

• Dinner is served!
• OPTICON Call for proposals semester 2015B

January 2015

• NOT observing schedule Period 51

July 2014

• NOT observing schedule Period 50
• NOT helps unravel string-of-pearls

May 2014

• NOT helps to reveal SN progenitor

April 2014

• Call for proposals for Period 50
• NTE: A new instrument for the NOT
• IAC-NORDIC Support Astronomer Position

February 2014

• Studentships at the NOT

January 2014

• OPTICON Call for Proposals 2014B

November 2013

• NOT discovers supernova associated with monster Gamma-ray Burst

October 2013

• Call for proposals for Period 49

September 2013

• News on interstellar grain alignment

April 2013

• Call for proposals for Period 48

February 2013

• NOT director: Call for applications

January 2013

• NOT observes stellar fireworks
• Announcement of Opportunity for major long-term research projects

September 2012

• Workshop on Science with the Nordic Optical Telescope

July 2012

• NOT observing schedule Period 46
• OPTICON Call for Proposals 2013A

May 2012

• NOT sees galaxies growing up quickly

February 2012

• NOT/Onsala Summer School now open for registration!
• Announcement of ITP time 2012-2013 - deadline Feb 29
• Call for Proposals for non-Nordic time - deadline Feb 29

January 2012

• NOT observing schedule Period 45

October 2012

• Call for proposals for Period 45

August 2011

• NOT Annual Report 2010

July 2011

• NOT observing schedule Period 44

May 2011

• Call for Studentships applications

April 2011

• Call for proposals for Period 44

February 2011

• New exoplanet discoveries with NOT
• Summer school registration open
• International Time Program announcement

January 2011

• NOT observing schedule Period 43

December 2010

New: ADC available for use with FIES

November 2010

• Finnish Ambassador visits NOT (in Spanish)
• NOT Jewellery

October 2010

• Call for proposals for Period 43
• NOT Annual Report 2009

July 2010

• NOT Strategy 2010-2015
• OPTICON Call for Proposals 2011A
• NOT observing schedule Period 42

May 2010

• Strategy questionnaire 2010 (finished)

April 2010

• Call for proposals for Period 42

March 2010

• ETSRC Report on the future of the European 2-4m telescopes

January 2010

• Nordic-Baltic research summer school
• Call for Studentships applications

December 2009

• International Time Program deadline 28 Feb 2010

October 2009

• New polarimetric capability for ALFOSC
• Call for proposals for Period 41

July 2009

• NOT observing schedule Period 40
• The NOT is used to test search method for extra-terrestrial life (in Norwegian)
  The search for ET just got easier (in English)

June 2009

• Nordic-Baltic Summer School

May 2009

• NOT Annual Report 2008

April 2009

• Call for proposals for Period 40

February 2009

• Nordic-Baltic Optical/NIR and Radio Astronomy Summer School
• Call for Studentships applications
• NOT observing schedule Period 39

October 2008

• Call for proposals for Period 39

July 2008

• NOT observing schedule Period 38

May 2008

• NOT Annual Report 2007

March 2008

• Announcement of Post-doctoral position at the NOT

January 2008

• Call for proposals for the ITP programme
• Call for Research Studentship applications

October 2007

• Call for proposals for Period 38

July 2007

• NOT observing schedule Period 36

May 2007

• NOT Annual Report 2006

April 2007

• Call for Letters of Interest to propose new instrumentation for NOT
• Call for Letters of Interest to propose a coordinated eductational programme at NOT
• Call for proposals for Period 36

December 2006

• Final Report on Strategic mid- and long-term planning for the CNO and NOT

October 2006

• Call for proposals for Period 35

March 2006

• NOT and WHT Observations Probing Cosmic Evolution with Gamma-Ray Bursts: GRB 060206 at Redshift 4.048

February 2006

• Call for proposals International Time Program 2006
• NOT observing schedule Period 33

October 2005

• The Science Grade Array installed in NOTCam
• Call for proposals for Period 33.

April 2005

• Call for proposals for Period 32.
• Annual Report 2004

February 2005

• Job vacancy System/Software Specialist

January 2005

• Call for proposals International Time Program 2005

December 2004

• Joint ING and NOT Conference: "2nd Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects"
  6-10 June 2005, La Palma. REGISTRATION OPEN !

October 2004

• Call for proposals for Period 31

July 2004

• NOT observing schedule Period 30

May 2004

• NOTSA 20th anniversary

January 2004

• NOT observing schedule Period 29
• New blue grism for ALFOSC

November 2003

• GRB afterglow shows polarimetric variability
• Announcement of Opportunity for International Time Programme 2004

October 2003

• Call for proposals for Period 29

September 2003

• NOTCAM spectroscopy: first light

August 2003

• NOT observing schedule Period 28

July 2003

• Norse giants take to the skies

June 2003

• The NOT Summer School 2003

May 2003

• Support Scientist position available

April 2003

• Call for proposals for Period 28.

November 2002

• The first MOSCA visitor run

October 2002

• Call for proposals for Period 27.

June 2002

• New second-order blocking filters for ALFOSC

May 2002

• Both mirrors re-aluminised!

April 2002

• NOTCam first visitor runs (documentation update on web)

March 2002

• AiC report to STC, March 2002 (ps file)

December 2001

• GRB optical counterpart discovered at NOT

October 2001

• Update: Proposal Info

July 2001

• NOTCam First Light!

June 2001

• NOTCam is at NOT!

April 2001

• NOTCam is on its way!
• ALFOSC MOS mode

March 2001

• AiC Report to STC, March 2001
• ALFOSC UBVRI Zero Point Monitoring
• FIES page - How to observe

February 2001

• Diffraction limited imaging in the optical!
• Imaging polarimetry with ALFOSC
• TCS Error Messages and Required Actions

January 2001

• New Director Search
• Major Update - Turpol (ST4 camera, ND filters, data reduction, and general documentation)

December 2000

• Support astronomer and System Manager positions available
• Measured focus offsets for NOT filters

November 2000

• Service Observations - Instructions

October 2000

• Placing your object on the slit (ALFOSC) - Precision and accuracy

July 2000

• 2nd GRB optical counterpart this year!

Mar 2000

• GRB Optical Counterpart dicovered at NOT

Feb 2000

• Announcement of AiC position