Science Operations Announcements

Observing Databases offline December 12

December 7th, 2023

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:

  • Observing Tool synchronizations and file transfers
  • Phase I Tool guide star probability queries
  • Target of Opportunity triggers

The new 2024A Observing Tool will be available after the update and will be required to access the observing databases.

US Phase I Server Offline

October 2nd, 2023

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.

Observing Databases offline June 6

June 5th, 2023

The Gemini observing databases will be offline for several hours on Tuesday, June 6 while we perform software updates.

During this time the following services will be unavailable:

  • Observing Tool synchronizations and file transfers
  • Phase I Tool guide star probability queries
  • Target of Opportunity triggers

The new 2023B Observing Tool will be available after the update and will be required to access the observing databases.

DRAGONS Version 3.1 Released

April 17th, 2023

The latest version of DRAGONS was released on 6 April and includes full support for GMOS long-slit data. With this release, DRAGONS offers support for the science quality reduction of data from the GMOS, NIRI, GSAOI, and F2 imagers, as well as the GMOS long-slit spectrograph (including nod-and-shuffle observations). The 3.1 release also includes new data-reduction recipes, tutorials, interactive tools, an improved calibration manager, GSAOI alignment/stacking (replacing disco_stu), improved procedures for bad-pixel masks, and Python 3.10 compatibility.

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