We are presenting the results from observations carried out at La Palma with the Nordic Optical Telescope, focused on studying the microvariability of obscured type 2 quasars. We investigate the connection between the microvariable events and the morphology of the studied targets. We also present a the detailed study of the techniques concerning

In this poster we present three developments related to the Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011hsa6.conf..467M{GOSSS}). First, we are making public the first version of MGB, an IDL code that allows the user to compare oberved spectra to a grid of spectroscopic standards to measure spectral types, luminosity

MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía) is the future intermediate-resolution optical Integral-Field Unit (IFU) and Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) of the 10.4m GTC telescope. The instrument can be used to observe either a contiguous (100% filling factor) field-of-view of 12.5×11.3 arcsec^{2} or 92 objects anywhere in

The Milky Way is expected to contain a large number of young massive (few x 1000 solar masses) stellar clusters, borne in dense cores of gas and dust. Yet, their known number remains small. We have started a programme to search for such clusters, MASGOMAS (MAssive Stars in Galactic Obscured MAssive clusterS). Initially, we selected promising

Aims: The aim of this work is to study the energy transport by means of Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in quiet-Sun magnetic topology from layers below the surface to the corona. Upwardly propagating waves find obstacles, such as the equipartition layer with plasma β = 1, the transition region, and null points, and they get transmitted

In this paper, we use information from the light field to obtain a distribution map of the wavefront phase. This distribution is associated with changes in refractive index which are relevant in the propagation of light through a heterogeneous or turbulent medium. Through the measurement of the wavefront phase from a single shot, it is possible to