Four radial profiles of M 31 in the near infrared taken with the 1.5 m infrared telescope of the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife are presented. Three of these, in the J, H, K bands extend 20 kpc eastward from the galactic center, while a K band profile extends from the center to 20 kpc westward. These data are combined with published visual

Moderate resolution near-infrared mapping of the M31 bulge component is presented, and the structure, and radial color index and surface brightness variations are discussed. The near-infrared surface brightness, mu(r), is matched well by Hubble and de Vaucouleurs functions for major axis distances of r greater than 30 arcsec, although they fail to

A study of IUE spectra of eight cool G4-K0 giants shows evidence of interstellar Mg II absorption in all the stars but Delta Dra. Sharp features are detected in the emission wings of four stars, while only strong asymmetries of the emission profiles are noted in three cases. In all the cases studied, the interstellar absorption features fall very

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Near infrared maps of the planetary nebula IC 418 taken at 5 arc sec spatial resolution are presented. These show an extremely compact source structure at 1.65 microns, and very much broader and more elliptical emission distributions at 2.2 and 3.6 microns. The possibility that the near infrared continuum derives from small grains with low thermal