quake in Northern Chile....................................................................................3 D. Enard: News from the Secondary Mirror Units....................................................3 G. Raffi: The VLT Control Software \u2014 Status Report..............................................5 T. Herlin, A. Brighton, P. Biereichel: The VLT Real Time Display Software..............6 NTT Bits and Pixels..................................................................................................8

Refurbished......................................................................................................9 C. Lidman: Superb Seeing on the 2.2-m Telescope with IRAS2............................10 Photometry with EFOSC2......................................................................................10 C. Oliveira: New Autoguider at the 1.52-m.............................................................10 J. Mendez: Satellite Pictures Available in the \u201cMeteomonitor\u201d Environment..........10 G. Ihle: The Last Trip of the ESO GPO.................................................................. 10

Galaxies..........................................................................................................12 D. Macchetto and M. Giavalisco: Have We Detected the Primeval Galaxies?......14 B. Leibundgut et al.: Discovery of a Supernova (SN 1995K) at a Redshift

Programmes Approved for Period 56.....................................................................29 Fourth CTIO/ESO Workshop.................................................................................35 Time-table of Council and Committee Meetings....................................................35 Personnel Movements...........................................................................................35 New ESO Preprints................................................................................................35 Last Copies of ESO/SRC Atlas Available...............................................................36

A few complete copies of the ESO/SRC Atlas are still available from ESO. The price of one Atlas, comprising a total of 1212 on-film copies of J and R exposures made with the UK and ESO Schmidts, respectively, and showing the sky south of declination \u201317\u00b0

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PALMA, Francesco (I), Procurement Officer
SAHU, Kailash (IND), Associate

ABUTER, Roberto, Informatic Engineer (VLT)
AVILES, Roberto, Instruments Operator (Astronomy)
C. ARCOS, Juan, Warehouse Assistant (Administration)

CARRASCO, Marcelo, Computation Engineer (Astronomy)
ESPINOSA, Jorge, Optical Detector Specialist (TRS)
I. LE\u00d3N, Jos\u00e9, Informatic Engineer (VLT)
MART\u00cdN, Gabriel, Instruments Operator (Astronomy)
MU\u00d1OZ, Ivan, Informatic Engineer (VLT)
NAVARRETE, Julio, Site Monitoring Assistant (VLT)
VILLAVUEVA, Raul, Civil Engineer VLT)

1090. S. Serjeant, M. Lacy, S. Rawlings, L.J. King, D.L. Clements. Spectroscopic Evidence that the Extreme Properties of IRAS F 10214+4724 Are Due to Gravitational Lensing.M.N.R.A.S.

1096. Bo Reipurth and R. Bachiller: CO Outflows from Young Stars. Invited Review presented at IAU Symposium 170. CO: Twenty- five Years of Millimeter-wave Spectroscopy, 29 May \u2014 2 June 1995, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Hipparcos
Spectroscopy of quasars with extreme\u03b1ox
Symbiotics: ancient mass transfer just like in Ba stars?

nebulae
Mass loss and AGB departure: population study in the LMC
Supernova light curves

Spectral analyses of A-type supergiants in the LMC: their
evolutionary status and calibrating the wind momentum-
luminosity relationship

radio sources as tracers
Calcium ionisation in Galactic halo gas
Asteroseismology of slowly pulsating B stars
Near-IR mapping of the inner jet of Centaurus A
The 3-d form of the\u03b7 Carinae nebula from high spatial

resolution imaging polarimetry
An optical Einstein ring
Millimetre photometry of Be stars

Br-alpha spectroscopy of OB stars
Dynamics of galaxies to\u2248 160 h\u20131 kpc
Optical/IR speckle observations of evolved stars and their

Activity in very distant comets
Low-luminosity carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Dense molecular gas in Centaurus A
The initial mass function of the bright stars in IC 2602

Clustering in the early universe
Sio in the Galactic centre region
Spectrophotometric monitoring of the double QSO

the MCs
Gas structure and kinematics in filamentary dark clouds
Mid-infrared study of young stellar objects in Bok globules
Spectroscopic follow-up of ROSAT-discovered X-ray sources

in the \u201cMarano Field\u201d
The age of elliptical galaxies in clusters
Miras in nearby galaxies (cont.)
Long-period variables in the Blanco fields in the LMC

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Chugai/Della Valle/Danziger/Lucy/
Mazzali/Patat/Phillips

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Ulrich/Molendi/Doublier
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van Paradijs/Augusteijn/Kaper/Roche/
van der Klis/van Kerkwijk/Zuiderwijk
van Paradijs/Charles/Casares/van der

Vettolani/Zamorani/Zanichelli/Wall
Vladilo/Centuri\u00f3n
Waelkens/Aerts
Wagner/D\u00f6bereiner
Walsh/Ageorges

Taylor
Waters/Zaal/Marlborough/Geballe
Webb/Lanzetta/Barcons
Weigelt/Davidson/Duschl/Geng/Kohl/

Seggewiss/Urban
West/Hainaut/Marsden/Meech
Westerlund/Azzopardi/Breysacher
Wild/Wiklind
Will/Seggewiss/V\u00e1zquez/Feinstein/

Schmidt
Williger
Wilson/H\u00fcttemeister/Henkel
Wisotzki/Reimers/K\u00f6hler/Smette

Wolf/Kaufer/Rivinius/Stahl/G\u00e4ng/
Gummersbach/Kovacs/Mandel/
Sterken/Szeifert

Yun/Clemens/Moreira
Yun/Moreira
Zamorani/Giacconi/Hasinger/Marano/

Mignoli/Zitelli
Ziegler/Bender
Zijlstra/Minniti
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