We construct a detailed model for the IR dust emission from the PN IC 418. We succeed to reproduce the emission from 2 to 200 μm. We can determine the amount of emitting dust as well as its composition, and compare to the depletion of elements determined for the photoionized region.

Solar Adaptive Optics (AO) shares many issues with night-time AO, but it also has its own particularities. The wavefront sensing is performed using correlations to efficiently work on the solar granulation as a reference. The field of view for that measurement usually is around 10". A sensor collecting such a wide field of view averages wavefront

The DOMENG project has introduced the Domain Engineering Process to the space community as a first stone on the roadmap to build a model-based and reused- oriented software production system, based on the analysis and modelling of the Space domain. At the current stage, the first iteration of the domain engineering process is close to an end and

Fullerenes, the carbon molecules with 60 and 70 atoms, were recently detected in a series of planetary nebulae, in protoplanetary nebulae and in other astrophysical objects. The detection and the quantitative determination of these molecules was made possible by the measurement of their reference infrared spectra and the relative molar extinction

Near-infrared spectroscopy was conducted to search for molecular material around 40 post-AGB stars. We present the detection of molecular emission lines of H2, 1-0S(1) at 2.122 microns and 2-1S(1) at 2.248 microns in 11 of the post-AGB observed. In addition, Brγ lines at 2.166 microns also were detected in these objects. To investigate the

We present high spatial resolution ($\approx60$--90 milliarcseconds) images of the molecular hydrogen emission in the Planetary Nebula (PN) NGC~2346.The data were acquired during the System Verification of the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System (GeMS) + Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager GSAOI).At the distance of NGC~2346, 700 pc, the