JWST

[Chriske]

Hi,

Thought I post it here also because not all of you guys don't  visit the ATM section of SGL very often.

Just finished building a JWST scale model 1:7
To close that thread I also posted a GIF taken by a member of our astrophoto-club @ Urania,  Tom Alderweireldt.
imo a fantastic GIF of the speeding JWST to its final destination in space L2
Magnitude of JWST = m16 (estimate)

Enjoy...

[peter shah]

That's just incredible!!!

Do you have the equipment specs?

Edited January 11, 2022 by peter shah

[Chriske]

I'll ask Tom.

[Sp@ce_d]

Amazing capture.. just.. Wow!

[talder]

Thanks Chris for posting this.

Had to wait quite a while in Belgian grey cloudy winter weather, but was finally able to capture this amazing piece of space engineering.

Images taken with Celestron C14 telescope on Astro-Physics mount with SBIG ST10XME CCD camera. The animated GIF is a sequence of 16 x 60 second guided exposures. The last 2 are 120 seconds, so a little brighter. Should have taken the whole sequence with 120 secs. Measured magnitude is now 16.3, although that varies with reflection angles on the sunshield.

The good thing about this Lagrange L2 destination point is that the JWST will remain visible forever around magnitude 17, or until fuel runs out.

Tom.