Context. The old Galactic halo stars hold the fossil record of the interstellar medium chemical composition at the time of their formation. Most of the stars studied so far are relatively near to the Sun, this prompts the study of more distant stars, both to increase the size of the sample and to search for possible variations of abundance patterns

Deep optical photometry of the Fornax dSph in the B, V and I filters was obtained using the CTIO 4-m MOSAIC II camera over 9 nights in October 2008 and November 2009. Deep photometry for the outer fields was obtained as part of observing proposal 2008B-0397 (PI M. Mateo) supplemented by deep pointings covering the centre of Fornax as part of

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Context. Paper I presents the magnetic structure, inferred for the photosphere and the chromosphere, of a filament that developed in active region (AR) NOAA 10781, observed on 2005 July 3 and July 5. Aims: In this paper we complement those results with the velocities retrieved from Doppler shifts measured at the chromosphere and the photosphere in

We present a detailed spectroscopic study of 93 solar-type stars that are targets of the NASA/Kepler mission and provide detailed chemical composition of each target. We find that the overall metallicity is well represented by Fe lines. Relative abundances of light elements (CNO) and α elements are generally higher for low-metallicity stars. Our

Ground-based observations were used to analyze the CMD over a wide spatial field in the B and V bands and to estimate the atmospheric parameters of the spectroscopic targets. In addition, we used ground-based U images available for a smaller field, and images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the HST (ACS/HST) in the F606W and