November 8, 2014
Time for my second GPI observing run! And this one is especially exciting as this run will officially start the GPI Exoplanet Survey. Flying down to […]
September 13, 2014
This week was the fourth commissioning run for GPI and I was happy to be back at Gemini to help. When we arrived it was a […]
July 11, 2014
Hello all, It was an important week for the Gemini Planet Imager Consortium. Several of us met at SPIE Astro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to present […]
July 11, 2014
Members of the GPI team recently attended the biennial SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference. This time it was in Montreal at the end of June, […]
June 30, 2014
Some news from Gemini Observatory, Gemini Observatory has revealed the list of observing proposals scheduled in 2014B (the second half of 2014) that will use the […]
May 30, 2014
I recently returned from the third commissioning run for the Gemini Planet Imager. Up until now, I had never been observing. I had never even seen […]
May 15, 2014
Astrometric calibration is critical for GPI: When we see a faint dot near a star, the best way to check whether it is a planet orbiting […]
May 15, 2014
Yesterday, we had a chance to see the telescope in all of its glory. And it is HUGE! It really makes you appreciate the amount of […]
May 13, 2014
Hello GPI fans – this is my first post at Cosmic Diary. I’m a NASA Sagan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona and a member […]