Recent evidence based independently on spectral line strengths and dynamical modelling point towards a non-universal stellar initial mass function (IMF), probably implying an excess of low-mass stars in elliptical galaxies with a high velocity dispersion. Here, we show that a time-independent bottom-heavy IMF is compatible neither with the observed

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The 1.5 m telescope GREGOR opens a new window to the understanding of solar small-scale magnetism. The first light instrumentation includes the Gregor Fabry Pérot Interferometer (GFPI), a filter spectro-polarimeter for the visible wavelength range, the GRating Infrared Spectro-polarimeter (GRIS) and the Broad-Band Imager (BBI). The excellent

The steep abundance gradient found by McCall, Shields, and Rybski (1981) in the Sbc galaxy NGC 3344 is confirmed by a measurement of the electron temperature in the outer H II region.

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An analysis of CCD spectra in the range lambda lambda4200 -8775, obtained at several positions of seven bright Galactic H Ii regions, with galactocentric distances in the range 6-10 kpc, is presented. Temperatures, densities and ionic abundances are calculated for all the positions, and the relative trends followed by these parameters are