NOT News Bulletin

February 2024

• ‘I caught a glimpse of the elusive green flash during my time at Nordic Optical Telescope’

January 2024

• Exploding star makes a black hole and eats companion

November 2023

• Fast flickering black hole caught in breakout

June 2023

• Blue Supergiants observed in detail
• Rare gravitational lens splits light of distant supernova into four images

May 2023

• Open call for observing time at the NOT
• Radio signal reveals supernova origin
• Tidal shocks can light up the remains of a star being pulled apart by a black hole

December 2022

• NOT plays vital role in discovering enigmatic cosmic explosion

November 2022

• NOT helps solve Black Hole Jet mystery

June 2022

• The workshop "NOT - a telescope for the future" is held in LaPalma, see info on Proceedings here

March 2022

• Observing exoplanet atmospheres with FIES/NOT

February 2022

• NOT sees a black hole spinning on its side

January 2022

• Watching the spectral evolution of V838 Mon - a stellar merger
• A massive Wolf-Rayet star going supernova

March 2021

• The most distant quasar with radio jets

November 2020

• A minimoon around the Earth - 2020 CD3

October 2020

• The NOT observing Interstellar Interlopers

September 2020

• Venus weather studied with NOTCam - daytime observing

August 2019

• DIPol-UF: Three-band high-speed polarimeter commissioned at the NOT

August 2018

• New holographic diffusers allow high-precision photometry
• The inside-out Planetary Nebula

June 2018

• Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
• Dust in the distant universe

January 2018

• Helping to understand the Sun's variability

December 2017

• A Heavy Metal Planet

November 2017

• NOT Observes Interstellar Visitor - later named 1I/'Oumuamua
• The Brightest Supernova Ever
• The supernovas that just won't die

October 2017

• NOT observes gravitational wave counterpart!

July 2015

• NOT helps to reveal the nature of SN-Ia progenitors

Abril 2015

• New rules for non-Nordic fast-track proposals

February 2015

• Dinner is served!

January 2015

• New VPH grisms #18, #19, and #20 for ALFOSC

July 2014

• NOT helps unravel string-of-pearls

May 2014

• NOT helps to reveal SN progenitor

April 2014

• NTE: A new instrument for the NOT

March 2014

• Supernova explosion provides clues into expansion of cosmos

November 2013

• NOT discovers supernova associated with monster Gamma-ray Burst

October 2013

• The brightest explosions in the Universe

September 2013

• News on interstellar grain alignment

January 2013

• NOT observes stellar fireworks
• Announcement of Opportunity for major long-term research projects

September 2012

• Workshop on Science with the Nordic Optical Telescope

May 2012

• NOT sees galaxies growing up quickly

August 2011

• NOT Annual Report 2010

February 2011

• New exoplanet discoveries with NOT

December 2010

New: ADC available for use with FIES

November 2010

• Finnish Ambassador visits NOT (in Spanish)
• NOT Jewellery

October 2010

• NOT Annual Report 2009

July 2010

• NOT Strategy 2010-2015

March 2010

• ETSRC Report on the future of the European 2-4m telescopes

October 2009

• New polarimetric capability for ALFOSC - WeDoWo

July 2009

• The NOT is used to test search method for extra-terrestrial life (in Norwegian)
  The search for ET just got easier (in English)

June 2009

• Nordic-Baltic Summer School

May 2009

• NOT Annual Report 2008

May 2008

• NOT Annual Report 2007

May 2007

• NOT Annual Report 2006

December 2006

• Final Report on Strategic mid- and long-term planning for the CNO and NOT

March 2006

• NOT and WHT Observations Probing Cosmic Evolution with Gamma-Ray Bursts: GRB 060206 at Redshift 4.048

October 2005

• The Science Grade Array installed in NOTCam

December 2004

• Joint ING and NOT Conference: "2nd Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects"
  6-10 June 2005, La Palma. REGISTRATION OPEN !

May 2004

• NOTSA 20th anniversary

January 2004

• New blue grism for ALFOSC

November 2003

• GRB afterglow shows polarimetric variability

September 2003

• NOTCAM spectroscopy: first light

July 2003

• Norse giants take to the skies (naming of Saturn's satellites)

June 2003

• The NOT Summer School 2003

November 2002

• The first MOSCA visitor run

June 2002

• New second-order blocking filters for ALFOSC

May 2002

• Both mirrors re-aluminised!

December 2001

• GRB optical counterpart discovered at NOT

July 2001

• NOTCam First Light!

April 2001

• ALFOSC MOS mode

February 2001

• Diffraction limited imaging in the optical!
• Imaging polarimetry with ALFOSC - FAPOL dual-beam polarimeter

January 2001

• Major Update - Turpol (ST4 camera, ND filters, data reduction, and general documentation)

December 2000

• Measured focus offsets for NOT filters

October 2000

• Placing your object on the slit (ALFOSC) - Precision and accuracy

July 2000

• 2nd GRB optical counterpart this year!

Mar 2000

• GRB Optical Counterpart dicovered at NOT