Gemini Sessions at AAS235

At the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Gemini staff and science users held two very successful splinter sessions. The first, titled “New Science Opportunities with the Next Generation Gemini North Adaptive Optics Facility,” was led by Julia Scharwaechter and focused on the new queue-operated multi-conjugate adaptive optics (AO) facility being designed for Gemini North (GNAO). For more information about GNAO and the other projects in the GEMMA program, see this link.

The second session was organized jointly by the NSF’s National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory’s Community Science Data Center and the international Gemini Observatory, and hosted several exciting talks in the session titled “Planets, Exoplanets, and Planet Formation with Gemini Large and Long Programs (LLPs).” Learn more about the LLPs and how to propose here. See the second item of this newscast for the deadline for Letters of Intent.