Science Operations Announcements

Gemini North ODB offline Aug 21

August 19th, 2024

The Gemini North observing database will be offline for several hours on Tuesday, August 20 Wednesday, August 21 while we perform hardware maintenance.

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

Please refresh this page for updates:

Observing Databases offline June 4

June 3rd, 2024

The Gemini observing databases will be offline for several hours on Tuesday, June 4 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 2024B Observing Tool will be available after the update and will be required to access the observing databases.

DRAGONS v3.2 Released - GHOST and new GMOS-S CCDs Support

April 2nd, 2024

The latest version of DRAGONS (v3.2.0) was released on 1 April, 2024 and includes fully integrated support for GHOST and support of the new GMOS-S CCDs installed late 2023.  With this release, DRAGONS offers support for the science quality reduction of data from the GMOS, NIRI, GSAOI, and F2 imagers, as well as from the GMOS long-slit spectrograph (including nod-and-shuffle observations) and new GHOST high-resolution spectrograph.  To get the software or for  more information, please go to https://dragons.readthedocs.io/.  Follow @

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.

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