JWST
Taken by Gianluca Masi on December 29, 2021 @
Ceccano, Italy
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Date Taken: 2021:12:30 12:20:11
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Details:
The image comes from a single 120-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.
At the imaging time, JWST was at about 550.000 km from us (almost 1.5 times the average lunar distance); its final destination is the L2 (2nd) Lagrangian point of the Earth-Sun system, located behind the Moon, at 1.5 millions of km from us. While we were imaging JWST, Nasa was extending its Deployable Tower Assembly: the gap created in this way will provide room for the sunshield membranes to fully unfold.
We also captured a short movie, showing the JWST moving across the stars.
Photographer's website:
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2021/12/30/the-james-webb-telescope-imaged-on-its-way-to-the-stars-29-dec-2021/
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