The decay of a small solar active region is studied with high-resolution magnetograms. The reduction process made it possible to match intensity and magnetic pictures exactly. It is found that the granulation massages the magnetic concentrations and contributes to their fragmentation. Supergranules contribute to the decay of the pore by removing

Various possible decay laws (exponential, linear, parabolic) are tried to fit the observational material. The dependence of the decay rates on the spot's maximum area as well as their variation along the activity cycle are studied.

The continuum contrast between fluxtubes and their quiet background, and the magnetic flux carried by these magnetic elements, have been determined at different points of a solar facula, in the frame of a two-component model from spectropolarimetric observations of 1arcsec spatial resolution. Local spatial variations of these two parameters have

The continuum contrast between flux tubes and their quiet background, and the magnetic flux carried by these magnetic elements, have been determined at different points of a solar facula. A two-component model based on spectropolarimetric observations of 1-arcsec spatial resolution is employed. Local spatial variations of these two parameters have

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A search for binaries among 17 blue stragglers in five galactic clusters, NGC 7789, 6633, 6819, 6939, and M 67, has been performed using measurements of radial velocity variations. The spectra were obtained with the Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph attached to the f/15 Cassegrain focus of the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope at the Spanish