JWST model -scale 1:7-

[wimvb]

Is it collimated? 😁

Seriously though, impressive work

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Edited December 21, 2021 by wimvb

[Chriske]

Of course not, it needs to be launched first before final collimation...🤣

[kirkster501]

What a brilliant piece of work!  Well done  

[tomato]

Great project, looks superb and will generate loads of interest, I’m sure. Was the scale dictated by the hexagonal mirrors you were able to source?

[Chriske]

No not at all. I made it at exactly the same scale as our HST model.
The hex mirror I used are not 100% correct, they differ only 1mm with what it should be at 1:7 scale. But nobody will notice...😉

[Mr Spock]

That looks amazing 👍

[Piero]

On the 20th Dec, the blueprints of the JWST were released by NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/blueprints-of-the-james-webb-space-telescope 

Edited December 22, 2021 by Piero

[Chriske]

3 minutes ago, Piero said:

On the 20th Dec, the blueprints of the JWST were released by NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/blueprints-of-the-james-webb-space-telescope 

I've seen it. Pity it was only now it was released...🙄 It would have been a great help during building that thing.

[Piero]

8 minutes ago, Chriske said:

I've seen it. Pity it was only now it was released...🙄 It would have been a great help during building that thing.

Yeah, I agree! It would have helped you a lot!

Anyway, your project is stunning as it is. 💯

[Chriske]

Problem during this project was to know what pictures or drawings on the net were the most recent. There were(and still are) even drawings not even close resembling the final product.

Anyway, I'm pleased with the result as it is.
Thanks to you all guys for the (many) kind words...😉

Its now resting on a table, but next week after the real JWST is launched, it will find it's place along side HST already hanging in our planetarium 3m high.

 

[Chriske]

Big question now... What if...?
What if JWST does not work properly, or not at all, or something goes wrong during launch...
We end up with that model... What do we do with it...?
Hang it up anyway or disassemble ....?

[Swoop1]

1 hour ago, Chriske said:

Big question now... What if...?
What if JWST does not work properly, or not at all, or something goes wrong during launch...
We end up with that model... What do we do with it...?
Hang it up anyway or disassemble ....?

Hang it up anyway. 

Space exploration and science is sometimes as much about the things that went wrong as it is about the successes. Your JWST would be a tremendous monument to mans insatiable curiosity.

[tomato]

Definitely keep it, if it all falls apart as it passes through the maximum dynamic load point, at least something will have come out of the 10 billion dollar investment.

[Sunshine]

That is AWESOME!

[Swoop1]

Part one of the worries over with- it got off the pad! Your model is not redundant.

[Chriske]

A few screenshots out of a YT movie(yesterday's Urania lifestream), so you can see how big our JW really is.

 

[Chriske]

 

Our JWST has almost arrived at it's final destiny...Still a few items to install, solarpanels, Mylar solarscreen, stabilising unit, cooling radiators, antenna,...
These items will be added early next week

 It will be fully 'operational' by end next week.

Edited January 7, 2022 by Chriske

[Chriske]

[tomato]

Wow, the deployment looked a bit scary, just like the real thing, hope you got it hoisted and secured without any mishaps.

[Chriske]

 

[Chriske]

But first a few holes needed to be drillled .....at 7m high....😱

 

[Chriske]

Nearly done, tomorrow last modifs, and final pictures....

Side by side with HST in our planetarium

[Chriske]

Tomorrow after finishing JWST I'll give HST a "firm rub" with my feather duster ....

Maybe Yvette would do that for me instead...😁

[Stu]

1 hour ago, Chriske said:

Tomorrow after finishing JWST I'll give HST a "firm rub" with my feather duster ....

Maybe Yvette would do that for me instead...😁

Will that count as SM5 (Service mission 5)? 😉. Hope you won’t need a shuttle to get there, or you might have to build one! 🤣

[Chriske]

During launch of JWST Christmas last, one of the NASA speakers said : That this will be the last time we would see JWST ever again...

Well not exactly true. Yesterday one of the members of our local observatory Urania made a few shots of JWST.  While speeding toward L2 at 0.35km/s it looks like this... Barely visible at magnitude 16...
Tom Alderweireldt did a great job here, I'm most impressed...!...😳