This is the Gemini Observing Tool (OT), which is used to develop and plan Phase 2 Science Programs for the Gemini telescopes.
Click below on the appropriate button to create a New Program, to Open an existing local or remote program, to Manage your keychain, to search the database with the OT Browser, or to Import a program from XML.
The Observing Tool is the work of the Gemini Observatory staff including Bryan Miller, Andrew Stephens, and the software engineers Arturo Nunez, Sebastian Raaphorst, Carlos Quiroz, Rob Norris, Shane Walker, and many former employees.
The image at left: IC 5148, nicknamed the Spare Tyre Nebula, is a beautiful planetary nebula located about 3000 light-years away near the ‘neck’ of the southern constellation Grus (The Crane). This image, captured with the Gemini South telescope, showcases the looming cloud of gas of IC 1548 and the central stellar remnant from which the gas radiates. It’s one of the fastest expanding planetary nebulae, pushing out into space at 180,000 kilometers per hour (112,000 miles per hour).
Contact Bryan Miller (bmiller@gemini.edu) for more information.
The Observing Tool uses Java code from a number of other projects and we would like to thank them for their work.
Last modified May 11th, 2024.