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Gemini Fast Turnaround: December 2024
16 December 2024
We are pleased to announce the monthly Call for Proposals for the Gemini Fast Turnaround (FT) Program. The upcoming deadline is 12:00 p.m. (noon) Hawai‘i Standard Time on 31 December 2024. Proposals are being accepted for both Gemini North and South. For…
IGRINS-2: High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectrograph at Gemini North
16 December 2024
IGRINS-2, the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph 2, marks the first new facility instrument at Gemini North since 2005. This compact, high-resolution near-infrared spectrograph operates across both the H and K bands simultaneously, achieving a…
Gemini North Returns From Shutdown
16 December 2024
Gemini North entered its 2024 maintenance shutdown on Monday 14 October. The planned work centered around annual maintenance of the acquisition and guidance unit (A&G), which lies at the heart of the Instrument Support Structure and houses the peripheral…
GNAO AOB Passed the Preliminary Design Review
16 December 2024
The Gemini North telescope supports research across many areas of modern astronomy, including the Solar System, exoplanets, star formation, galaxy evolution, supermassive black holes, and the large-scale structure of the Universe. As a ground-based…
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.