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- Date: 27 Apr 2016
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- Categories: For Everyone
Weather Impacts GeMS Run Bad weather and poor seeing significantly impacted the recent run of the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Systems (GeMS) and the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI). Unfortunately this prevented most of the planned observations from being completed. Only a small portion of data were obtained for the Large and Long Program […]
- Date: 25 Mar 2016
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- Categories: For Everyone, Human Interest
Waipahu High School student Diana Castaneda has been selected to compete in the Hawai’i State Science Fair thanks to her project titled, “Stardust and Black Holes: Star Formation Rates of Galaxies.” Diana’s mentor, Gemini Science Fellow Andreea Petric, began working with Diana thanks to an outreach program last summer at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting […]
- Date: 7 Mar 2016
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- Categories: For Everyone, Images/Videos, Outreach
Journey Through the Universe 2016 During the week of March 7-11, 83 observatory professionals consisting of astronomers, engineers, astronomy educators, and other observatory staff, will bring their passion for science into hundreds of local Hawai‘i Island classrooms as a part of Gemini Observatory’s flagship annual outreach program, Journey Through the Universe. Now in its 12th […]
- Date: 2 Feb 2016
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- Categories: For Everyone, Images/Videos, Outreach
Gemini at Onizuka Day Gemini Observatory and the local community celebrated the legacy of Big Island Astronaut Ellison Onizuka last Saturday, January 30th during the annual Onizuka Day event at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the NASA Challenger disaster that took the lives of the space shuttle […]
- Date: 21 Jan 2016
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- Categories: For Astronomers, Operations News
Base Facility Operations – A Success at Gemini North Base Facility Operations (BFO) are now fully implemented for the Gemini North telescope and all nighttime telescope operations are routinely conducted from the Hilo Base Facility (HBF). Gemini North night crews report that observing is much more efficient with BFO. The BFO team accomplished a huge amount […]
