After maintenance works, during which various components of the array controller and the electronics were checked, replaced, and fixed, NICS is again available for observations.

We welcome two new colleagues, Alexis Romero Upegui and Eliecer Manuel Pérez Valladares, who give life from today to the Maintenace group of the ASTRI Mini Array. We hope this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful working relationship.

An international team led by researchers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) determined the mass and density of the planet Kepler-10c with unprecedented precision and accuracy. Thanks to about 300 radial velocity (RV) measurements collected with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS-N) spectrograph installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), it was possible to estimate its composition - mostly water in solid but possibly also liquid state - and to understand how it might have formed. The study was published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

The available time offered in this call at TNG via INAF-TAC is 50 nights, 10 of which are reserved to exo-planetary research programs with Early Career PI (see special notices below) and 40 are for other science programs. We encourage applicants to submit proposals asking a row of consecutive nights to be done in visitor mode. The budget can increase if not all the nights offered in other calls will be effectively allocated by the respective TACs. The foreseen schedule breakdown is reported at the bottom. All proposals will be judged strictly on their scientific merit.