Category: For Astronomers
- Date: 2 Nov 2015
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- Categories: For Astronomers, Operations News
The Gemini South telescope is back on the sky, after 18 days of hard work during the recent scheduled maintenance shutdown. During the shutdown, from October 13-30, the 8.1 meter primary mirror received a fresh multi-layer protected silvered coating – a key task for the shutdown. The Gemini primary mirrors (north and south) are unique among […]
- 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: 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 […]
- Date: 14 Aug 2015
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- Categories: Operations News
Installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on the roof of the Gemini North building on Maunakea is now well underway. Gemini’s head mechanical engineer Chas Cavedoni is managing the project with assistance from Steve Hardash, Gemini’s head of engineering operations. Hardash reports that the panels are expected to generate about 10% of the power required […]
