Category: Outreach
- Date: 26 Jul 2016
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Everybody Wants to be a StarLab Educator! Word is out, and educators are passing on the news about Geminiʻs StarLab Loan Program! Gemini North and South both have portable planetariums available for loan to schools and community groups. Every month the outreach office receives more and more loan requests, however the equipment is only loaned to trained educators who […]
- Date: 7 Mar 2016
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- Categories: For Everyone, Images/Videos, Outreach
Journey Through the Universe 2016 During the week of March 7-11, 83 observatory professionals consisting of astronomers, engineers, astronomy educators, and other observatory staff, will bring their passion for science into hundreds of local Hawai‘i Island classrooms as a part of Gemini Observatory’s flagship annual outreach program, Journey Through the Universe. Now in its 12th […]
- Date: 2 Feb 2016
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Gemini at Onizuka Day Gemini Observatory and the local community celebrated the legacy of Big Island Astronaut Ellison Onizuka last Saturday, January 30th during the annual Onizuka Day event at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the NASA Challenger disaster that took the lives of the space shuttle […]
- Date: 21 Aug 2015
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- Categories: For Everyone, Host Communities, Outreach
For most institutions, including Gemini, hardware has a relatively short life-cycle. It can be expensive to upkeep older computers and if an older computer fails, years of valuable research and/or information is lost. This is why Gemini generally replaces its computer hardware every three to four years. However, for Tim Minick, Gemini’s Information Systems Group […]
- Date: 12 Aug 2015
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For the second time in two weeks, hundreds of students will participate in free educational astronomy activities at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) conference in Honolulu. Local students will get to interact with scientists and engineers from around the world in hands on demonstrations. Gemini North’s Christine Copes, Janice Harvey, and Alyssa Grace will be […]
