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We present the results of the analysis of near-infrared images of 14 southern hemisphere dark clouds taken at Las Campanas Observatory. All selected regions have associated IRAS sources. We based our study of the young stellar population associated with the clouds on our J, H and Ks calibrated images.

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We discuss how a wide field imager with very high spatial resolution on a relatively small telescope but located in an observing site with very good seeing might constrain the fraction of binary stars in Galactic globular clusters. We also mention the role that the new data might play in investigating advanced evolutionary phases of low-mass stars

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has undertaken a 3-year initiative to develop the Community Spectro-polarimetric Analysis Center (CSAC). The goal of this effort is to provide the community with standardized tools for extracting the solar magnetic field vector and related atmospheric parameters from spectro-polarimetric

We present results from our ongoing effort to understand the morphological and kinematical properties of early-type galaxies using the integral-field spectrograph SAURON. We discuss the relation between the stellar and gas morphology and kinematics in our sub-sample of 24 representative Sa spiral bulges. We focus on the frequency of kinematically