We present astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic observations of supernova 1993J in M8 1, obtained with the Isaac Newton Group telescopes and the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle. The spectral data set includes the first spectrum ever taken of SN1993J. The early spectra also yield an estimate of the total visual extinction, Aν. This is

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NGC 5982 is known to be one of those elliptical galaxies that have peculiar kinematics in their centres. In this paper, optical spectroscopic observations are presented, which show that a specific feature is present in the velocity field of NGC 5982. This suggests that the kinematical behaviour is the result of projection effects in a dynamically

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We present a consistent model of storage, instability and dynamical eruption of magnetic flux tubes in the solar convection zone and underlying overshoot region. Using a convection zone model with self-consistent overshoot layer, we calculate equilibrium configurations of magnetic flux tubes and determine their linear stability properties, taking

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