JWST images

[tomato]

1 hour ago, IB20 said:

 The zoom out 🤯

Thanks for posting, best yet I've seen  to display the resolving power of the JWST.

[bomberbaz]

18 minutes ago, DaveS said:

This an image from a few years ago. 2 mins each RGB with the Liverpool Telescope on La Palma

I think the likelihood is I saw 4 of the 5, including the interacting pair. (Bortle 2 skies) 

I really should keep better notes, but I become a lazy astronomer on that front as I lose myself in the skies.

[Stu]

6 hours ago, Zermelo said:

Just to pick out one small area as a comparison between HST and JWST:

I think that's just about identical, but the frame is rotated a bit between the two.

You can see just how much more is in the JWST, both in terms of extra detail in the JWST and whole objects that aren't shown in HST at all.

 

 

Thanks for this. It really does show the improved performance in the red shifted galaxies, presumably now in the infra red that Hubble just didn’t pick up.

[Zermelo]

"Opening remarks" now starting on the NASA channel (45 minutes ahead of the actual pics)

[Jamgood]

More trumpet blowing. Get on with it. 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Jamgood

[tomato]

I'll let them have 45 minutes of self congratulation, especially when you consider how many things they had to get right before we could see and enjoy any images.

[Jamgood]

True but we already know how amazing they all are. We don't need to be reminded before every reveal. 

[Zermelo]

To be fair, they were clear in their timetable: images at 15.30 our time, preamble before that.

I think it's only right that they have some public recognition. I've worked on a few long-running programmes (nothing like this scale) and there are always some dark days along the way. Many of them fail, and it often takes some serious determination from people who aren't necessarily involved in the details (the administrators, sponsors, politicians) to keep them alive. Webb was at serious risk of cancellation and some of the people on stage no doubt had a hand in saving it.

And I think it's reasonable that NASA marks the leading role they have had in making it all happen. They have been very effusive in their namechecks to other organizations so far.

Now for the pics!

[Steve Ward]

You thought they'd have shoved a Powermate in the mix and gotten in a bit closer ... 

[gilesco]

And the first image is..... the one we saw yesterday.

[Jonk]

This broadcast is terrible.

[gilesco]

9 minutes ago, Jonk said:

This broadcast is terrible.

Yes, in short I think there is a better place to just get the images as they dribble them out:

https://webbtelescope.org/news/news-releases?Collection=First Images

[Jonk]

Oooh....'How to process the images'....listen up folks (although I get the feeling most information we probably already know).

[Jonk]

I quote....."wow, wow, this NIR image is, WOW"....

 

[Jonk]

[Jonk]

Southern Ring Nebula NIR full image link: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G79R4PQEKTHV094X9767ASV8.tif

Southern Ring Nebula MIR full image link https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G786DQSAZJ4FAN8X9BY6TG7A.tif

 

 

[Dinglem]

is it me or have they got the apprentice on the camera in the studio?

 

[DaveL59]

37 minutes ago, Zermelo said:

To be fair, they were clear in their timetable: images at 15.30 our time, preamble before that.

I think it's only right that they have some public recognition. I've worked on a few long-running programmes (nothing like this scale) and there are always some dark days along the way. Many of them fail, and it often takes some serious determination from people who aren't necessarily involved in the details (the administrators, sponsors, politicians) to keep them alive. Webb was at serious risk of cancellation and some of the people on stage no doubt had a hand in saving it.

And I think it's reasonable that NASA marks the leading role they have had in making it all happen. They have been very effusive in their namechecks to other organizations so far.

Now for the pics!

funnily enough I was doing some online admin so never fired up the stream. Next thing Sky News switched across at the point they started to show the images and analysis so I didn't have to do anything or listen to any early rambling 😄 

Impressive images, very nicely done!

[gilesco]

1 minute ago, Dinglem said:

is it me or have they got the apprentice on the camera in the studio?

 

Apprentices on the mixing gallery too I would say.

Also, they've tried to do some live interaction, but someone didn't realise that streams are buffered so live interaction is going to be very awkward with delays etc...

[Jamgood]

3 minutes ago, Dinglem said:

is it me or have they got the apprentice on the camera in the studio?

 

Not the best production is it. The can put a man on the moon but can't make a decent TV stream.

[Jonk]

Stephen's Quintet has just been released. Very very nice.

Screenshot:

 

Here's a link to the full image: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7DAXJYYTYXCFSB8VQRK5X2F.tif

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Jonk

[Jonk]

Next image the same target but MIR - showing an active black hole!

[Jamgood]

It almost like a really bad, late night, shopping channel with ham presenters showing off amazing images every now and then.

[Jonk]

There's one more image to share....standby

[Penumbrella]

14 minutes ago, Jonk said:

novice question here, but has MIRI split a double that NIRcam couldn't here? and if so, is that the tightest split in astronomical history 🤣