We present echelle spectroscopy in the 3500-10300Å range of the Hourglass Nebula, which is embedded in the Galactic H II region M8. The data were obtained using the 2.1m telescope at Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in San Pedro Mqrtir, Baja California. We have measured the intensities of 274 emission lines, in particular 88 permitted lines of C+

We have acquired narrowband imaging of NGC 2346 in the transitions H I λ6563 and λ4861 and [O III] λ5007. As a result, we are able to evaluate the variation of both excitation and extinction over the projected central parts of the nebular shell. Extinction appears to be surprisingly uniform, and there is (in particular) little evidence for the

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X-ray scattering measurements are performed in order to verify % that the mechanism leading to the DC electric field induced $C_{2v}^{19} o C_{2v}^{ eq 19}$ phase transition in KDP crystal at 119 K is the changing of the local sites symmetries of phosphate group from $C_2$ in the $C_{2v}^{19}$ phase to $C_s$ in the $C_{2v}^{ eq 19}$ phase. It is

If dwarf galaxies are primeval objects in the universe, as hierarchical galaxy formation scenarios predict, they should show traces of their old stellar populations, perhaps distributed in extended, differentiated structures. The working hypothesis that such a structure could exist is tested for the case of DDO 187, a field, dwarf irregular galaxy

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