The James Webb Space Telescope: new image and video – 8 Jan. 2022
We continue to track the James Webb Space Telescope and last night we grabbed new nice image and video.
The James Webb Telescope, imaged from Earth. – 08 Jan. 2022.
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The image above comes from a single 180-second exposure, unfiltered, remotely collected with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit available at the Virtual Telescope Project. Our robotic telescope tracked the apparent motion of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is marked by an arrow in the center. We estimated a magnitude of 14.5 (unfiltered, R mags for the reference stars from the GAIA DR2 star catalogue). When we captured this image, the first of the two JWST’s primary mirror wings was deployed.
At the imaging time, JWST was at about one million of km from us (almost 2.6 times the average lunar distance); its final destination is the L2 (2nd) Lagrangian point of the Earth-Sun system at 1.5 millions of km from us. As seen from the Sun, that L2 point is directly behind the Earth.
Below is a short animation made with the images captured during the imaging session.
The James Webb Space Telescope in motion against the stars.
If you want to learn more about this amazing instrument, just check the detailed Nasa’s website.
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