Gemini South Mirror Delivered to Remote Chilean Mountain Top

Stan Hart, NOAO RET

Related Links

Background information about the Gemini Program

The Gemini Observatory
The Gemini home page.
http://www.gemini.edu/

Aerial Tour of the Mauna Kea Observatories
An aerial tour of the Mauna Kea mountaintop and telescopes.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/images/aerial-tour/aerial-tour.html

Infrared Radiation
A copy of an informative brochure about Gemini and infrared radiation.
http://gemini.hia.nrc.ca/brochure/infrared2.html

Gemini Virtual Tour
A cool site with links to scientific background information and a virtual tour of the Gemini telescopes.
http://www.scienceweb.org/astro/hia/vtours/vtgemini.html

The Southern Gemini Telescope
Gemini public home page with links to each site. Site pages contain maps and progress reports.
http://www.gemini.edu/public/pachon.html

Gemini Directory
Hundreds of little images related to the construction of the Gemini Telescopes.
http://www.hia.nrc.ca/outreach/visit/gemini/

More Advanced Information about the Gemini Program

What is Adaptive Optics?
A copy of an article from Science Magazine about Adaptive Optics.
http://www.eso.org/projects/aot/introduction.html

T-ReCS Introduction
Paper about mid infrared imager and spectrograph for Gemini South.
http://gemini.hia.nrc.ca/sciops/instruments/miri/MiriNoFrames.html

The Atmosphere: Site Characterization Studies
Atmospheric site characterization studies of the Gemini locations.
http://gemini.hia.nrc.ca/sciops/instruments/adaptiveOptics/Seeing.html

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