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- Date: 25 Sep 2015
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- Categories: For Everyone, Operations News
On September 16th, 2015, La Serena was hit by a 8.3 earthquake (reported by USGS) at 19:54 local time, with the epicenter about 150km from La Serena. Fortunately, the Gemini staff at the summit and in La Serena are all fine. A first check of the telescope and installations were initiated after the quake […]
- Date: 18 Sep 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers, For Everyone
This year, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in a partnership with the Gemini Observatory and the Hawai‘i State Department of Education is launching a pilot program, tentatively titled the Maunakea Telescope and Technology project. Ultimately, the project will allow high school students on Oahu and Hawaii Island to obtain data with the CFHT telescope. Initially, students […]
- Date: 24 Aug 2015
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- Categories: For Everyone, Human Interest
Last week, University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) graduate student, Sarthak Dasadia, visited Gemini North. Sarthak, an amateur astronomer and staff person at a local planetarium near his home in India, would often collect scientific data to send to various institutes such as the American Meteor Society. He recounts, “Internet was a privilege back then, […]
- 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: 17 Aug 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers, Science Results
Many properties of the Milky Way halo, like its mass, are not well known, and not all the mass is even ordinary matter. Direct measurements of the proper motions of objects in the halo can disentangle properties that are otherwise undistinguished, and these observations of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters also provide insight into the […]
