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Gemini Observatory
Hilo, Hawai`i

Media Contacts:
Peter Michaud
Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawai`i
Phone: 808/974-2510
E-mail: pmichaud{at}gemini.edu

Jennifer Akingkubedaggs
Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawai`i
Phone: 808/974-2607
E-mail: jaking{at}gemini.edu

FOR RELEASE: June 2, 2003

New Gemini Images Exemplify the Power of Adaptive Optics

Part 2 of 2

The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration that has
built two identical 8-meter telescopes. The Frederick C. Gillett
Gemini Telescope is located at Mauna Kea, Hawai`i (Gemini North) and
the other telescope at Cerro Pachón in central Chile (Gemini South),
and hence provide full coverage of both hemispheres of the sky. Both
telescopes incorporate new technologies that allow large, relatively
thin mirrors under active control to collect and focus both optical
and infrared radiation from space. 

The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in each
partner country with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that
allocate observing time in proportion to each country's contribution.
In addition to financial support, each country also contributes
significant scientific and technical resources. The national research
agencies that form the Gemini partnership include: the US National
Science Foundation (NSF), the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy
Research Council (PPARC), the Canadian National Research Council
(NRC), the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y
Tecnológica (CONICYT), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the
Argentinean Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Té
cnicas (CONICET) and the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). The Observatory is
managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy,
Inc. (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. The NSF also
serves as the executive agency for the international partnership.

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