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.”