The experimental fiber-optic spectrograph FLEX being developed for the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at Tenerife is briefly described and illustrated with a drawing. FLEX is designed to serve as an interim general-purpose spectrograph on the WHT before ISIS becomes operational and as a testbed for future instruments. Essentially, the UNIT

EL TRABAJO PRESENTA UN ESTUDIO DE 6 REGIONES DE FORMACION ESTELAR ASOCIADAS A ALGUNAS NEBULOSIDADES CANDIDATAS A OBJETOS HERBIG-HARO (NEBULOSIDADES GGD) Y LOS OBJETOS ESTELARES JOVENES (OEJS) ASOCIADOS A ESTAS. ESTE ESTUDIO ESTA BASADO EN NUMEROSAS OBSERVACIONES ORIGINALES EN EL INFRARROJO Y EL OPTICO QUE INCLUYEN FOTOMETRIA, ESPECTROSCOPIA E

The variation of the electron density with position in a selected group of bright giant extragalactic H II regions has been studied using long slit spectrophotometry at high spectral and spatial resolution. Density values for the ionized gas of the regions have been obtained from the measurement of the forbidden S II 6717, 6731 A ratio. It is

CCD photometry of faint stars in the globular cluster M3 is presented. The observations reach down to V equal to about 23 mag, with a sample of approximately 5000 stars. The resulting color magnitude diagram has a turn-off significantly redder than those obtained in previous studies. Age and distance are derived by fitting the observed mean line to

So as to meet the requirements of high spatial resolution techniques, two data acquisition interfaces for ITV and IPD detectors have been developed. These permit a synchronized and simultaneous observation between both of them. The synchronized temporal resolution is 20ms, as well as the data of the ITV, while the reading interface from the IPD

Highly ionized gas has been detected at large distances from the nucleus in several classes of active galaxies. There is evidence that photoionization by the active nucleus may be the most relevant mechanism for the observed ionization. The spatial distribution of such gas has a conical shape, whose vertex points towards the nucleus and the axis is