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by hindsightbias 750 days ago
Is this installed on one of the telescopes or integrated between both? I read about the LBT once and it seemed some instruments were on one and some were integrated. I assume it's used as a mono and binoc platform, depending.
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minimalc 750 days ago
I'm not quite sure about their exact optical setup, I know the Zyla's are used in the shark-vis instrument[0]. I would guess from their article that one Zyla is dedicated to adaptive optics and one for imaging.

[0] https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/shark-vis/instrument/detect...

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alfiopuglisi 750 days ago
> I assume it's used as a mono and binoc platform, depending.

Correct, it depends on the observation. Both sides have adaptive optics correction, but they work independently. This particular instrument (SHARK-VIS) is mounted on the "right" side, while SHARK-NIR is on the "left" side.

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