Category: For Astronomers
- Date: 26 Feb 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers
2/20/15 Initial Fast Turnaround Cycle Proceeding Smoothly The first monthly cycle of the Fast Turnaround program is well underway. Rachel Mason, who led the implementation of the innovative new proposal mode, said she is, “really pleased” with the way it is proceeding. Users submitted 17 valid proposals, corresponding to an over-subscription rate of about 3. […]
- Date: 4 Feb 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers, For Everyone, Images/Videos
Racks and Heat “High-availability networks are key in ensuring that Gemini’s daytime and nighttime operations run dependably and efficiently. Quite simply, the fault of a single network device should never impact Gemini’s exploration of the universe! The same holds true for planned maintenance cycles. The new fault-tolerant core network infrastructure now provides us flexibility when […]
- Date: 3 Feb 2015
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NIFS Update The Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIFS) joined the suite of four instruments mounted on Gemini North last week. NIFS is available for nighttime operations through March 4th, after which the Near-Infrared Imager (NIRI) takes over the Instrument Support Structure’s up-looking port.
- Date: 2 Feb 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers, Software & Data Reduction
Congratulations to the winners from early contributions to the User Data Reduction Forum! The Users’ Committee for Gemini (UCG) evaluated the submissions and recommend that David Rupke be recognized for his large effort, and Andrew Stephens for his smaller submission. The contributions are IDL-based routines to work with data from integral field spectrographs, including NIFS […]
- Date: 30 Jan 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers, Software & Data Reduction
Attention Gemini Users: A new version of the Gemini IRAF package (v1.13) is now available. This release is required for processing GMOS-South Hamamatsu CCD data and includes configuration files and examples. Please see Gemini’s Processing Software page for more information.
