The Gemini North observing database will be offline for several hours on Tuesday, August 20 Wednesday, August 21 while we perform hardware maintenance.
During this time the following services will be unavailable:
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The Gemini South observing database will be offline on Wednesday, July 31 for maintenance.
During this time Observing Tool synchronizations and file transfers will not be possible.
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The 2024B Gemini Observing Tool is now available for download. This update is required to access the Gemini Observing Databases.
The Installation Instructions are linked on the Observing Tool web page, and we recommend that everyone download their programs from the databases rather than import from saved XMLs.
The Gemini observing databases will be offline for several hours on Tuesday, June 4 while we perform software updates.
During this time the following services will be unavailable:
The new 2024B Observing Tool will be available after the update and will be required to access the observing databases.
The latest version of DRAGONS (v3.2.0) was released on 1 April, 2024 and includes fully integrated support for GHOST and support of the new GMOS-S CCDs installed late 2023. With this release, DRAGONS offers support for the science quality reduction of data from the GMOS, NIRI, GSAOI, and F2 imagers, as well as from the GMOS long-slit spectrograph (including nod-and-shuffle observations) and new GHOST high-resolution spectrograph. To get the software or for more information, please go to https://dragons.readthedocs.io/. Follow @
Letters of intent are now solicited for new Gemini Large and Long Proposals, to begin in semester 2024B. Letters are due by February 12 2024, and full proposals by April 1 2024.
The 2024A Gemini Observing Tool is now available for download.
This version is required to access the Gemini Observing Databases.
The Installation Instructions are linked on the Observing Tool web page, and we recommend that everyone download their programs from the databases rather than import from saved XMLs.
The Gemini observing databases will be offline for several hours on Tuesday, December 12 while we perform software updates.
During this time the following services will be unavailable:
The new 2024A Observing Tool will be available after the update and will be required to access the observing databases.
The Phase I servers encounted significant technical issues as we approach the 2024A proposal deadline. We believe that the problems have been resolved. We are extending the proposal deadline for all participants until 19:59 MST/Pacific (16:59 Hawaii, 23:59 Chile/Argentina/Brazil) on October 3, 2023 (11:59 October 4 in Korea) so that all valid proposals can be received. Please submit a Helpdesk ticket if you have any additional problems or questions.
The Altair electronics remain in an unstable state and are not suitable for operations at this time. Investigations are continuing. We will not install NIFS until Altair is reliably functional. It is likely that NIFS will not be available until the later blocks scheduled in 2023B: in November and January.