Slow Motion Mergers in Galaxy Clusters Provide Conditions to Transform Spirals to Smooth Disks is a press release issued by the Royal Astronomical Association during the National Astronomy Meeting 2006 in Leicester. It is based on observations obtained with the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope.

Visit of La Palmita School (La Palma, Spain). 24 November 2001 and 27 March 2002

Continuous monitoring of Comet LINEAR by the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope showed that it was disintegrating as it approached the Sun. The latest and best images from the larger aperture Isaac Newton Telescope now give us the clearest idea so far of how and why the comet disintegrated.

Nightly observations made since July 23 in different broadband filters with the 1-m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain show what appears to be the complete disruption of the nucleus of comet LINEAR, the brightest comet of the year.