Gemini Observatory Local Outreach

The Gemini South StarLab visits a remote community in Chile where the only facility able to accommodate the inflatable planetarium is a church!

Star Lab Chile Church

Gemini Observatory has established a diverse local outreach program at both of our host communities (Chile and Hawaii). For details on these programs, please download the PDF article (first link below) which provides an overview of our programs ranging from portable teacher exchanges to a partner in the Family Astro program.

The following links provide more details on our current outreach programming:

Gemini Public Information and Outreach (222 KB PDF article from June 2004 Gemini Newsletter)
Family Astro* (General information from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
Journey Through the Universe* (General information from the Challenger Center)
StarTeachers

* Gemini is sponsoring local sites for these national (US) programs

Gemini Observatory Participants

Gemini's mission is to advance our knowledge of the Universe by providing the international Gemini Community with forefront access to the entire sky.

The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration with two identical 8-meter telescopes. The Frederick C. Gillett Gemini Telescope is located on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i (Gemini North) and the other telescope on Cerro Pachón in central Chile (Gemini South); together the twin telescopes provide full coverage over both hemispheres of the sky. The telescopes incorporate technologies that allow large, relatively thin mirrors, under active control, to collect and focus both visible and infrared radiation from space.

The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in six participant countries 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 Canadian National Research Council (NRC), the Chilean Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), the Brazilian Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Argentinean Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, and the Korea Astronomy and Space Institute (KASI). 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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