Help Gemini Upgrade Instruments to Better Serve You

Gemini is committed to maintaining the competitiveness of our instrumentation and serving the needs of our user community. Every year since 2015 we ask our user community to send us instrument upgrade proposals. This year Gemini welcomes proposals for a total budget up to $600,000 USD for upgrading any of our facility instruments. In addition, Gemini offers a state-of-the-art near-infrared Hawaii-4RG detector, plus its controller electronics, for use in an instrument upgrade. The request for proposals starts on July 24th, letters of intent are due on September 14th, and proposals are due on October 5th. We expect to begin one or more of these instrument upgrade projects in the first quarter of 2018. For further updates please visit the Instrument Upgrade Program webpage.