James web telescope mirror alignment completed

[Kuz]

[Just seen this stacked image for the James webb telescope
First stacked image after mirror alignment there would some sighs of relief by people involved

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Awesome

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

That’s only the first tentative alignments. They still have a long way to go to get a coherent single science star image.

[alpal]

They've done it -
finally a perfect image and you can even see distant galaxies!


https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/w...scn/index.html

Image here which wouldn't hotlink unless in compose mode:
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/asse...xlarge-169.jpg

More from NASA:
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLa...ereIsWebb.html


cheers
Allan

[pmrid (Peter)]

You can imagine the anticipation and excitement building as these final steps keep producing optimal results. I rough-counted at least 2 dozen faint fuzzies in that image.

Great things to come!

[AdamJL]

wow, most of the objects in that image are galaxies... amazing.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by AdamJL

wow, most of the objects in that image are galaxies... amazing.

Hi Adam,.

Yes - it is actually working.
It's hard to believe as it has been such a long complicated process to
get to this point where even a small thing that went wrong
could have ended it.
I can't wait to see all the pictures soon.


Allan