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Old 10-02-2022, 08:53 PM
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JWST imaged at L2

I have waited a month for skies to clear over Sydney to try imaging JWST at its destination now at L2 1.5 million km away. It was easy, I got it at the first attempt last night taking 30x1 minute exposures using my C14. It was moving at 1.77 arcsec/minute with direction PA 298. This image from Astrometrica shows a tract and stack of 10 images. It was easy to see it on a single 1 minute exposure. Thanks to ephemeris from Unistellar I had it at the dead center of the field my SBIG 8300M camera almost exactly at the predicted position. The big telescope shines at 17.6V magnitude.

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Old 10-02-2022, 09:20 PM
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Great reward for your perseverance!
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Old 10-02-2022, 10:00 PM
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Wonderful work and results Andras, and thanks for listing the magnitude, it is pretty faint at mag 17.6.

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Awesome catch. Well done
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Wow!

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That is brilliant !
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