Likely distance and angle of rotation causes a dimmer telescope, and corrections might explain brightness variation.
Compare to my image of yesterday, and see how much brighter it now looks, despite being more distant.
Total exposure 2 hours in frames of 2 minutes each. At high magnfication you can see the trail consists of individual dots.
Sunshield not yet rolled out on December 30th.
Movement against the background of stars in our Milky Way over 80 minutes. Check largest size to see the trail with each dot the JWST in a 2 minute interval.
James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes as LEGO designs by my boy from February 2016 [he was 8 years old] after seeing a documentary about Hubble.
I've waited for JWST to be launched to post this but it looks now that the launch will no happen until March 2021, so here it is.
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