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Gemini Telescopes
The Gemini project (http://www.gemini.edu/) is a multi-national effort to build twin 8.1 meter astronomical telescopes utilizing new technology to produce some of the sharpest views of the universe ever. One telescope will be located atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea and the other atop Chile's Cerro Pachón (http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/enclosure/pachon/cp_construction.html).
Together they will provide complete unobstructed coverage of both the Northern and Southern skies.


Gemini Northern 8-meter Telescope
Location: Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Aperture: 8.1 meters (319 in)
Operational: 1999
Primary use: Optical/Infrared
Sponsors: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina, Australia,
Brazil and Chile
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Gemini North Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii
Photo from: http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/enclosure/maunakea/2409.html


 


Gemini North Telescope
Photo from: http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/telescope/g0013.html

 

Aluminizing the primary gemini mirror
Photo from: http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/mirror/g0087.html


 

Gemini Southern 8-meter Telescope
Location: Cerro Pachon in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile
Aperture: 8.1 meters (319 in)
Primary use: Optical/Infrared


Gemini South Observatory at Cerro Pachon in northern Chile.
Photo from: http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/enclosure/pachon/2514.html