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- Date: 29 Aug 2014
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- Categories: Images/Videos
Working in a place as spectacularly beautiful at Mauna Kea, every now and then I get the chance to image something new. In this case very new! The thin sliver of a crescent moon was roughly 15 hours old when the Sun’s reflected photons excited my camera’s CCD. Engrossed in setting up for the […]
- Date: 25 Aug 2014
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- Categories: Operations News
…or rather, tweets from one of Gemini’s Large and Long programs. If you’re a regular Twitter user, or even a casual tweeter, consider following: @wtfastro (Wesley Fraser) and; @astrokiwi (Michele Bannister). They are both live-tweeting their experiences at the Gemini North telescope, on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. The team is at Gemini working on the COLOSSOS: […]
- Date: 15 Aug 2014
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- Categories: Human Interest
Today the Akamai interns of the Hawai‘i workforce initiative give their presentations at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo. Their original presentation was canceled due to then Hurricane Iselle. Gemini staff were given the opportunity to hear these presentations ahead of everyone else, and we wish them luck in their talks today, and in their […]
- Date: 14 Aug 2014
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- Categories: Operations News
The visiting instrument TEXES, (a high-resolution mid-infrared spectrograph) currently on Gemini North, continues its run despite interruptions by a hurricane and other weather events. The TEXES team is well-along in observing all of their highest-priority targets, and expects to observe many more before their run ends on August 17th. The TEXES visiting team commented that […]
- Date: 14 Aug 2014
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- Categories: Human Interest
Thursday was Gemini North intern Cindy Villamil’s last day with Gemini. Here is what she had to say about her internship with us. “While I was here I was working on HST (Hubble Space Telescope) images of a galaxy cluster called RXJ0848.6+4453. Mainly I was running and modifying scripts to help me extract and analyze the […]
