Gemini North Primary Mirror Status
For updates on the status of the Gemini North primary mirror, please visit this page.
Public Visits
A number of public visits to our sites are now open, including the exclusive Overnight Telescope Observing Program at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, and tours of NOIRLab Headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, the Gemini Hilo Base Facility in Hawai‘i and the AURA Recinto in La Serena, Chile. Learn more here.
New Telescope Status Pages Facilitate Target-of-Opportunity Observations
23 May 2023
As the number of Target of Opportunity (ToO) proposals has increased at Gemini, the telescope status pages for Gemini North and Gemini South have also been updated to make triggering of observations easier for PIs. The new format includes the status of the…
Summer AAS and CASCA Meetings
23 May 2023
Gemini staff will be attending the 2023 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) in Penticton, British Columbia and the 242nd American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We hope to see you there! There will be…
NSF’s NOIRLab (formally named the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory) is the national center for nighttime astronomy. For the first time, all of the nighttime optical/infrared observatories funded by NSF are unified into a single organization. The integration of the Mid-scale Observatories (MSO - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, CTIO, Kitt Peak National Observatory, KPNO) the Community Science & Data Center (CSDC), the Gemini Observatory, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory creates a powerful capability for discovery, technology development, STEM workforce growth, and education. NOIRLab empowers astronomers to tackle the most pressing questions in astrophysics today and opens up new discovery space for the future.