- Date: 26 Sep 2014
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Gemini North is back to normal operations this week following a regularly scheduled yearly shutdown. This shutdown offered a unique opportunity for many of Gemini’s science staff to see and experience the inner workings of the instruments they regularly use. Below are pictures and videos from this rare visit inside of Gemini. Click on the images to see them full size.
Members of the Gemini North Science staff.
- Movement of the MOS mask into place (GMOS). (Green laser points out the “gripper”)
- Movement of the “probe” into place (GMOS). A Green laser used to point out the features referred to in the video.
Inside the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS).
- Movement inside GMOS of the gratings and filter wheel.
Some of Altair’s optics. Altair is Gemini North’s adaptive optics bench.
The inner workings of the science fold mirror (covered) used to send light collected by the telescope to one of the various instruments mounted on the back of the telescope.
- Science fold mirror movement.
Color filter wheel as part of the Acquisition and Guidance modules.
