Category: For Everyone

Get to Know Gemini! Lindsay Magill

Get to Know Gemini is a series of blog posts aimed to highlight the different careers, backgrounds, and types of people contributing to Gemini Observatory and its science. Name:  Lindsay Magill What is your current position and at which telescope? Science Operations Specialist, Gemini South In four lines or less, explain what you do as […]

Get to Know Gemini! Erik Dennihy

Get to Know Gemini is a series of blog posts aimed to highlight the different careers, backgrounds, and types of people contributing to Gemini Observatory and its science. Name:  Erik Dennihy What is your current position and at which telescope? I am Science Fellow at Gemini South. In four lines or less, explain what you […]

Get to Know Gemini! Jason Chu

Get to Know Gemini is a series of blog posts aimed to highlight the different careers, backgrounds, and types of people contributing to Gemini Observatory and its science. Name:  Jason Chu What is your current position and at which telescope? I am a Gemini Science Fellow at Gemini North Observatory. In four lines or less, […]

Weekly Mirror Cleaning

Dust, dirt, cinder, and other particulates on our  telescopes’ primary and secondary mirror surfaces can  significantly degrade their reflectivity and light scattering properties. To keep our 8.2-m primary mirrors  and 1.0-m secondary mirrors shiny and reflective between our recoating cycles (every few years we re-silver the top coat of our mirrors), we clean the mirror […]

Get to Know Gemini! Atsuko Nitta

Get to Know Gemini is a new series of blog posts aimed to highlight the different careers, backgrounds, and types of people contributing to Gemini Observatory and its science. Name:  Atsuko Nitta What is your current position and at which telescope? Gemini North Head of Science Operations at Gemini North. I am also a “Scientist”. […]

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