Gemini South by the Full Moon (IMAGE)

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Gemini South by the Full Moon

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This stunning photograph taken, with a fish-eye lens from inside the Gemini South dome, shows the telescope nested in its altazimuth mount, pointing just high enough so that its monstrous 8-meter primary mirror is visible.

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Gemini Observatory/AURA image by Manuel Paredes

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