To this contribution we present a brief review of our recent abundance surveys (Reddy et al. 2003; Reddy et al. 2006) of the Milky Way galaxy. Survey focussed on controlled samples of stars selected based on their kinematic ...

High-resolution Fabry-Perot observations have been made to determine the velocity structure of five PNe and to subsequently relate the observations to the morphology of the objects. New kinematic data on one of these PNe, ...

Globular clusters have been alternatively predicted to host intermediate-mass black holes (IMBFIs) or nearly impossible to form and retain them in their centres. Over the last decade enough theoretical and observational ...