1 Director’s Message
Jennifer Lotz
3 GeMS Delivers the Sharpest View of the Visible Light from Distant Galaxies
Mark Lacy, Kristina Nyland, and Susan Ridgway
7 Science Highlights
John Blakeslee
12 On the Horizon
Gemini staff contributions
17 News for Users
Gemini staff contributions
22 Science and Evolution of Gemini Observatory 2018 Conference a Success!
Joanna Thomas-Osip
ON THE COVER: GeminiFocus October 2018
Image of R136, a young
stellar grouping in 30
Doradus (a massive
star-forming region in
the Large Magellanic
Cloud) obtained during
commissioning of the
GeMS adaptive optics
system at Gemini South.
See page 3 for a recent
result from GeMS on
distant galaxies and page
12 for an announcement
on new funding which will
bring an updated version
of this multi-conjugate
adaptive optics capability
to Gemini North. GeminiFocus is a quarterly publication
of the Gemini Observatory
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GeminiFocus
October 2018