To study some physical properties of comets of the Jupiter Family, we have compiled a new catalog of nuclear magnitudes. As a source for the catalog we have used Kamel's (1992) compilation of data from many different sources, adding measurements of nuclear magnitudes for the period: mid 1990 - mid 1996, taken from the IAU Circulars, MPCs, ICQs and

A large and deep ethnoastronomical fieldwork has been performed in the Canary Islands of Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Gomera and Gran Canaria during 1995 and 1996. Numerous and challenging astronomical traditions, almost at the border of extinction, have been found among aged shepherds and peasants of these island.

The ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis (PIA) software was conceived primarily as a tool to be used by the instrument team for the calibration of ISOPHOT@. This is one of the four instruments on board the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), launched in November 1995. Actually, PIA has been extended to form an interactive tool for

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