NEW IMAGE OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE ON SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We wanted to see the James Webb Space Telescope again after eight months, and this is our image :

The James Webb Space Telescope as seen from Earth on September 16 2022

The image above is from a single 300-second unfiltered exposure collected remotely with the Virtual Telescope Project's "Elena" (PlaneWave 17′′+Paramount ME+SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit. The apparent motion of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is marked by an arrow in the center, was tracked by our robotic telescope.

JWST was about 1.3 kilometers away at the time of the imaging; it is now "parked" in the Earth-Sun system's L2 (2nd) Lagrangian point, 1.5 million kilometers away. That L2 point is directly behind the Earth as seen from the Sun.


Source : The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0

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