OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the GTC and the only Spanish Day One instrument. With both instrument and telescope schedules matched, OSIRIS will be available as soon as the GTC is scientifically operational. In this contribution an overview of the instrument

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The Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (ROA) meridian circle was moved to the Estación de Altura Carlos Ulrrico Cesco in the República Argentina in 1996. Until November 1999 the observations were carried out with a moving slit micrometer. In spring 2001 the result of these observations has been published, forming the first Hispano

I will review some results of observational cosmology which critically cast doubt upon the foundations of the standard cosmology: 1) The redshifts of the galaxies are due to the expansion of the Universe; 2) The cosmic microwave background radiation and its anisotropies come from the high energy primordial Universe; 3) The abundance pattern of the

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