Primary mirrors for the Gemini South and SOAR telescopes are on the move. The Gemini South primary mirror was photographed by Peter Michaud (IGPO) on its way up the Tololo Road to Cerro Pachón in mid-March 2000. The primary blank for the SOAR telescope, which will also be located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, is shown here in a photograph (lower right) taken by Victor Krabbendam (NOAO/SOAR Project) in the 8-m facility of Corning Glass Works, Ithaca, New York, on 2 May 2000. Full progress reports on the Gemini and SOAR projects can be found in this issue, in the US Gemini Program and the CTIO sections, respectively.

NOAO Highlights

• A Nebulous, but Absorbing Probe
• A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects
• Cosmic Shear Surely Seen!
• FeH -- An Emerging Magnetic Probe for Sunspots and Cool Stars

Director's Office

• The Decadal Survey -- Implications for NOAO
• NOAO and the Decade Survey
• Planning the GSMT
• Planning New Approaches to Surveys and Data Exploration
• Enabling Ground-Space Programs
• Report of the 1999 NOAO Users' Committee
• Best Wishes and Thanks to Jeannette Barnes

Observational Programs

• Proposals Received for Semester 2000B
• Looking Ahead to 2001
• First "Gemini" Data!
• IRAF Update
• 2000B Observing Request Statistics

CTIO Operations

• SOAR Construction Progressing on Schedule
• CTIO's Web Page: Your Resource for Proposals, Travel, and Observing at CTIO
• Undergraduates Enjoy A Busy Summer at CTIO
• Astronomers Talk Stars, Gas, and Dust

KPNO Operations

• WIYN Update
• Report of the WIYN Review Committee
• A Busy Summer on Kitt Peak

US Gemini Program

• General Status of the Gemini Project
• Gemini South Primary Mirror Arrives in Chile
• First Science: The Gemini Demonstration Science Program
• US Gemini Instrumentation Program Update
• Gemini Proposals: What's Next?
• Gemini Proposals in March 2000: How Did It Go?
• The US Gemini Science Advisory Committee

National Solar Observatory

• The NSO Initial Response to the NRC 2000 Decadal Survey
• From the NSO Director's Office
• Advanced Solar Telescope (AST) Workshop -- 2nd Announcement
• Plans for Adaptive Optics at the McMath-Pierce Telescope
• S O L I S
• Seismic Images of the Far Side of the Sun
• Cathode Lamp Spectroscopy
• NSO Telescope/Instrument Combinations
• NSO Observing Proposals

Global Oscillation Network Group

• Global Oscillation Network Group

NOAO Educational Outreach

• Project ASTRO Thrives in Tucson
• RBSE Workshop in Summer 2000
• Summer 2000 NOAO/KPNO REU Program
• Public Presentation of NOAO Images and Science

Publications

• NOAO Preprint Series
• Other NOAO and NSO Papers