November 15, 2002

High-Speed Links Connect Astronomers With 2 Telescopes 7,000 Miles Apart

By FLORENCE OLSEN

When astronomers travel to an observatory, it is often the luck of the draw that decides whether they can accomplish what they signed up months earlier to try, says Peter Michaud, manager of public information and outreach for the new Gemini Observatory (http://www.gemini.edu). Atmospheric conditions at observatories are not always optimal, he notes, recalling stories of astronomers who would come year after year to an observatory and "things wouldn't match up."

Now Gemini's managers

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