In recent years,
there has been an increase in available instruments, resulting in an increase
in mounting locations.SHARC2
was moved to a new Nasmyth platform, N2, and the performance improvement from
the DSOS was lessened.
This chart shows
Ganymede when SHARC2 was on the Cassegrain mount, shown on the left.The picture on the right is of
Ganymede with SHARC2 mounted on N2.
At first sight
my thought was, “Aw poop!”Next
thoughts were “What is happening?” and “What can be done about it.”
