Gemini 2022 Science Observations

This animation from the US National Gemini Office (US NGO) shows every science observation made by the Gemini North and South telescopes in 2022. The observations, which targeted 3139 unique objects with 70,767 science frames taken, appear on the map chronologically and are color-coded by telescope (blue for Gemini North and red for Gemini South). The public metadata was gathered from the Gemini Observatory Archive and shows the uniqueness of the Gemini twin telescopes, covering essentially the entire night sky from their locations in Chile and Hawai‘i.