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Originally Posted by Dennis
Hah Bob – my thoughts exactly, who was looking at who? 
I believe that the JWST has a huge “sun shield” that protects the mirror, electronics and other systems from the heat and light of our Sun, and I wonder if somehow this was making it brighter and more visible in my frames.
As I watched the little dot that is the JWST crawl across the Notebook screen, it occasionally brightened as it passed in front of a background star, with their combined light output making it stand out more on the screen.
Cheers
Dennis. |
Interesting yet again Dennis, yes I would assume the shield would be very reflective, and no doubt being the light source you are capturing, although its main purpose is to reflect heat, as infrared, it would almost certainly reflect most other light bands, and prob main light spectrum at least very well,,
I believe the shield would be position at exactly 90 degrees from the line to the Sun, or 'Square to it, if that sounds better,, Soooo I wonder if the reflection of Webs shield would change for us here during earths orbit around the sun, and/or Webs orbit around the Lagrange point relative to earth and sun
Might discover a ' Variable Telescope'
