1 Director’s Message
Jennifer Lotz
3 Making Good Use of Bad Weather:
Finding Metal-poor Stars Through
the Clouds
Vinicius Placco
8 Science Highlights
John Blakeslee
13 On the Horizon
Gemini staff contributions
16 News for Users
Gemini staff contributions
21 Gemini Outreach Programs Sparkle
in Both Hemispheres
Manuel Paredes and Alyssa Grace
ON THE COVER: GeminiFocus April 2019
Gemini GeMS+GSAOI J,
K color composite image
of HP 1, a globular
cluster just 3° away from
the Galactic Center that
is a “fossil relic” of the
Galactic bulge’s early
formation. The work,
led by Leandro Kerber of
the Universidade de São
Paulo and Universidade
Estadual de Santa Cruz
in Brazil, is featured
in this issue’s Science
Highlights starting on
page 8. GeminiFocus is a quarterly publication
of the Gemini Observatory
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GeminiFocus
April 2019