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Some serious hardware

Christopher Davenport

By Christopher Davenport
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Christopher Davenport

Christopher Davenport

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This is a such a cool project and makes me wish I was a scientist!

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/webb3d/#

It has the following:

coarse alignment scope and camera ... ie. your polar scope.

6.8 meter mirror in a cassegrain config ... reminds me a bit of a big truss dob.

An OAG which does plate solve and guiding ... I wonder if they use PHD?

Lastly infrared camera that is heat shielded and running at close to Zero Kelvin ...

Some cooling system!

Anyone know what the mega pix is?

I can't wait to see what images this produces!

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