delivered image quality and commissioning the powerful multi-object spectroscopy
(MOS) mode.
GeMS/GSAOI Moving Toward More
Robust Operations
Figure 3.
Image of the Orion
Bullets obtained
during the late
commissioning phase
of the GeMS adaptive
optics system, with
the Gemini South
AO Imager (GSAOI).
The large adaptive
optics field-of-view
(85 arcseconds across)
demonstrates the
system’s extreme
resolution and
uniform correction
across the entire field.
Image Credit: Gemini
Observatory/AURA.
The Gemini Multi-conjugate adpative optics System (GeMS), along with its dedicated
imager, the Gemini South Adaptive Optics
Imager (GSAOI), has, in 2013, completed the
transition from a development project into
System Verification (SV) observations. In Semester 2013B, the instrument neared normal
scie