Representatives of the United States of America, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and the Republic of Korea have signed a new agreement to continue the operations of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The agreement took effect on 1 January 2022 and ends on 31 December 2027.

The 2022B Gemini Call for Proposals will include several important new features including support for the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON), dual-anonymous review process (DARP) support, and a category for...

Submit your abstracts for contributed talks at the Gemini Science Meeting by 15 February 2022! Prospective speakers will be notified in March of the status of their abstracts. Early registration is also...

When Apple removed support for 32-bit binaries from MacOS (10.15+), instructions were provided to run Gemini IRAF in a virtual machine using readily available virtualization software (eg., Virtual Box). With the advent...

The Gemini North secondary mirror (M2) system went into a fault state on 4 January 2022. The affected mechanism is responsible for the x-y translation of M2, and plays a key role...

Gemini North and South are accepting proposals for the Fast Turnaround (FT) program. The upcoming deadline is 23:59 Hawai‘i Standard Time on 31 January 2022. Successful proposals from this cycle will be...

The US National Gemini Office has created an animation of science observations obtained in 2021 at both Gemini telescopes, using metadata publicly available through the Gemini Observatory Archive API. The animation shows...

Severe winter weather has been the rule on Maunakea over the past few weeks. More than half of the available nights in December were lost to a combination of snow, fog and...