Science Announcements


Conceptual Design Studies for a Gemini High-Resolution Optical Spectrograph

5 April 2011

Gemini has issued an announcement of opportunity for conceptual design studies of a high-resolution optical spectrograph.  Please see the complete announcement at the Federal

Gemini IRAF package compatibility issues

8 March 2011

IRAF COMPATIBILITY ISSUES - FITSUTIL AND IRAF V2.15March 9, 2011FITSUTIL Package The fitsutil package found on iraf.net dates from December 2010. This

2011B PIT released

27 February 2011

The Phase I Tool (PIT) for semester 2011B observing proposals has been released. Poor weather and director's time proposals during the remainder of semester

2011B call for proposals announced

27 February 2011

Gemini is now accepting proposals for observing time in Semester 2011B. The proposal deadline is March 31, 2011. A new version of the Phase

Gemini South 2011A Science Operations

27 January 2011

Last week Gemini passed a major milestone with the beginning of on-sky engineering testing of the Gemini South 50-watt laser.  This event marks

GN observing database downtime on Jan 18

17 January 2011

The Gemini North observing database will be offline for 2-3 hours on Tuesday January 18 for hardware maintenance. It is expected that this work

2011A Programs and Schedule Announced

12 December 2010

The Gemini 2011A observing programs have now been announced. Successful PIs will have received email notification. Please check the schedules page for more information.

GPI Call for Letters of Intent for Campaign Science Proposals Announced

8 December 2010

The Gemini Observatory plans to announce a Call for Proposals for Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) Campaign Science. We now request letters of intent from