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 News and Upcoming Events:

11 February 2000. 200th anniversary of the day when the famous astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered infrared rays.

"Tonight on the William Herschel Telescope" is a course given by Dr Rob Jeffries, starting on 29th February in the Department of Physics, Keele University.

ING Newsletter No. 2, March 2000 on-line.

15 March 2000. The Milky Way was Formed in a Record Short Time.

16 March 2000. Successful First Light on INGRID, the ING infrared camera.

17 March 2000. Live connection with the WHT on the course of a lecture about Information Technology given by Prof John Taylor (Director of Research Councils) at the Royal Institution, London.

20,21 March 2000. The William Herschel Telescope is filmed for Expo Hannover 2000.

Note: For publication or display (electronic or otherwise), all images 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. Thank you. We also have three more different credits: short, long, and very long.

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.
	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.

Pictures and
Astronomy
Images


	Images taken using the telescopes: the ING Picture Gallery of the Universe.
	General Picture Archive: pictures 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