Science Announcements


New IFUs for GNIRS!

12 September 2022

The Low-Resolution (natural seeing) integral field unit (LR-IFU) for GNIRS had its first light on 6 July 2022. The first functionality and requirements testing

GemVM to support Gemini IRAF on the Mac M1

12 September 2022

A new virtual machine implementation for running IRAF on MacOS 10.14+ is now available. You can find updated instructions here. This should provide

Pyraf for Python 3

12 September 2022

Following some collaboration with the IRAF Community project earlier this year, we are pleased to make available PyRAF 2.2.1, the first version to pass

Gemini South Maintenance Shutdown Completed

12 September 2022

From 1 to 25 August 2022 Gemini South was shut down for maintenance. The original plan was to carry out Acquisition and Guiding System

Gemini Fast Turnaround August 2022 Call for Proposals

10 August 2022

Gemini North and South are accepting proposals for the Fast Turnaround (FT) program for the August cycle. Apply by 12:00 noon Hawai‘i Standard Time

Observatories at Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachon in Chile closed due to snow

21 July 2022

Access to both Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachón in Chile was suspended this past week due to an unusually powerful Chilean winter snow storm.

Black Holes at All Scales — Giant Magellan Telescope Community Science Meeting

21 July 2022

Registration is open for Black Holes at All Scales! This will be the 8th annual Community Science Meeting hosted by the Giant Magellan Telescope project.

Announcing LSST@Europe4

21 July 2022

The LSST@Europe4 conference will take place in Rome at the historic Accademia dei Lincei on 24-29 October 2022 and will be conducted in hybrid mode to enable access to remote participants.