Public Information on

The Isaac Newton Group
of Telescopes

Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory,
La Palma

Jacobus Kapteyn and Isaac Newton Telescopes

Control room of the Isaac Newton Telescope

Latest Public Information News and Upcoming Events:
Old News and Events

27 August, 10 September and 17 September. ING Open Days.
5 September. ING Newsletter No. 3, September 2000 available.
5 August. New Evidence that Galaxies Formed Early in the History of the Universe. IAU General Assembly Press Release.
4 August. Comet LINEAR: Going, going... but not quite gone!. ING Press Release
28 July 2000.The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope observes the death of comet LINEAR. ING Press Release
20 July 2000. Southampton astronomers find 10 billion billion billion megaton bomb using the INT. RAS Press Release.
1 July 2000. The BBC programme 'Blue Peter' is filmed at the WHT.
29 June 2000. "Invisible" Galaxies, Distorted Arcs and Galactic Rings Revealed by First Images from INGRID.

Note: For publication or display (electronic or otherwise), all the images on these web pages must be credited: "Photo Courtesy of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma" unless otherwise stated. Please send a message to Javier Méndez (ING PR Officer) with all the details of the publication for our own records. We also have three more different credits: short, long, and very long. Thank you very much.

General Information

	Who we are.
	Virtual tour of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes: history, the telescopes, research, etc.
	The William Herschel Telescope.
	The Isaac Newton Telescope.
	The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope.

Publications and Information Services

	Press Releases.
	Newsletters. The ING Newsletter is published in March and September.
	Annual Reports.
	[INGNEWS] Mailing List is an important source of breaking news targeted at ING users, i.e. to disseminate news concerning current developments at ING or telescope time.
	A leaflet in English and in Spanish describing ING is available. Please contact jma@ing.iac.es for copies.
	Other publications related to ING: Astronomical Images taken with the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope CD-ROM. This CD-ROM, published by Twin Press, was produced by Dr Walter Jaffe (Leiden Observatory) and provides multi-colour, professional CCD exposures of deep sky objects as an introduction to astronomical image processing. The Millenium Planet Poster, by David A. Hardy and published by Astronomy Now.

Pictures and Astronomy Images

	Images taken using the telescopes: the ING Picture Gallery of the Universe.
	General Picture Archive: pictures and movies of the facilities, logos, etc. in different formats.

The Scientific Productivity of ING

	Scientific Highlights. Astronomical discoveries following from observations at the ING telescopes.
	Scientific Output.

Visiting ING

	If you are interested in visiting us, please have a look at the Visiting ING page first.
	Every summer a series of Open Days are organised. Please visit this web page for more information.
	The ING La Palma web pages are also of interest.

Souvenirs

Visit our on-line store of souvenirs: t-shirts, pins, stickers and more.

Dissemination of Astronomy

Dissemination of astronomy material: astronomy sheets showing discovery and nice images taken with our telescopes, articles written by ING astronomers, talks, etc.

Miscellany

	ING Mission Statement.
	A Spanish law protects the sky quality on La Palma. Visit this page maintained by IAC for more details.
	The Palmeran Association of Amateur Astronomers (Agrupación Astronómica de La Palma).
	PR Annual Reports.
	Useful links.

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Javier Méndez

ING Public Relations Officer

jma@ing.iac.es