The 2.5-m Isaac Newton telescope has been used in a spectrophotometric monitoring program of high-luminosity AGN. The data acquisition and analysis techniques are first discussed. A comparison of the L-alpha, C IV, and C III profiles reveals that the profiles of different lines in a single object are not always the same as each other. An analysis

From H-alpha CCD observations taken with the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope a catalog of 394 HII regions of the spiral NGC 3992 has been compiled. The distribution of diameters and the luminosity function for the arm and the interarm HII regions has been studied.

CCD photometry and MERLIN observations of M87 (Virgo A) have been used to study the variations of the radio to optical spectral index along the jet. In general, the radio spectrum is flatter than the optical one and both become steeper with distance from the nucleus. The optical fluxes of the bright knots lie at or below the extrapolation of the

The emissivity was calculated for the pair production of helicity-flipped neutrinos, in a way that can be used in supernova calculations. Also presented are simple estimates which show that such process can act as an efficient energy-loss mechanism in the shocked supernova core, and this fact is used to extract neutrino mass limits from SN 1987A

Intermediate resolution CCD spectra of the oxygen triplet at 7770 A have been analyzed to determine oxygen abundances in a sample of metal-deficient stars with metallicities covering the range of Fe/H values between -0.2 and -2.5. Important oxygen overabundances (O/F values of not less than 1) are found in the more metal deficient stars of the

The identification of two new southern planetary nebulae, IRAS 16455-3455 and IRAS 15154-5258, via low resolution spectroscopy, is reported. IRAS 16455-3455 is a high excitation planetary nebula with an extension of 9 arcsec, m(V) = 8.95 and E(B-V) = 1.21. Chemical abundances in this nebula are similar to the mean values for planetaries in the