After Webb launched on December 25, 2021, the world followed its million mile journey to its final destination: an orbit around the second Lagrange Point. Many people sent us their imagery.
This image by Bhumesh Bharti is of Webb's Ariane 5 rocket as seen from India.
Bhumesh says, "That night I was clicking the milky way and stars on the dark night with clear sky from a village called Thal, in Bageshwar Disttrict of Uttarakhand in India. Suddenly I saw a comet. I started focusing my lens towards that. I observed it moving fast not like any comet. I tried clicking (though I was not having any appropriate lens for the closeup) but still I tried with my 70-200 mm Sony lens on Sony camera. and I got the picture. I shared this picture to few on my friends to identify that moving object in the sky. One of my friend Mr. Anup Sinha from USA identified this as JWST launch and send me the link of NASA to upload."
Thank you so much for sharing!!
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After Webb launched on December 25, 2021, the world followed its million mile journey to its final destination: an orbit around the second Lagrange Point. Many people sent us their imagery.
This image was captured by Dominique Dierick in Belgium on December 30th, 2021. At this point, in deployments, the aft momentum flap was deployed, and the covers were removed from the sunshield, but it was not yet deployed.
"Here is the image of the movement of JWST against the backdrop of stars in Monoceros and Orion.
I imaged this sequence with my Takahashi Epsilon 180ED astrograph and ASI2600MC
cooled color camera. It consists of 40 individual frames, each exposed for two minutes,
and then combined to see the motion of the JWST.
The image was made on December 30th, between 22h and 23h30 CET. The sun shield
was not yet opened."
Image credit and copyright Dominique Dierick. Used with permission. Please contact us at GSFC-NASAWebb@mail.nasa.gov with any questions on usage and we can connect you.
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After Webb launched on December 25, 2021, the world followed its million mile journey to its final destination: an orbit around the second Lagrange Point. Many people sent us their imagery.
These images were captured by Dominique Dierick in Belgium on December 30th (left) and December 31st (right), 2021. Dominique noticed the telescope was quite a bit brighter on December 31st despite it being more distant and wondered if anything new had been deployed. In fact we were in the middle of deploying the sunshield booms.
We think when this video sequence was captured around 00hUT (December 31st -> January 1st), there was only one boom out. youtu.be/9PM_ywxQ8OQ?feature=shared
This image compares the two nights with the same image scale and individual exposure length.
Left image: Here is the image of the movement of JWST against the backdrop of stars in Monoceros and Orion.I imaged this sequence with my Takahashi Epsilon 180ED astrograph and ASI2600MC
cooled color camera. It consists of 40 individual frames, each exposed for two minutes,
and then combined to see the motion of the JWST. The image was made on December 30th, between 22h and 23h30 CET. The sun shield
was not yet opened.
Right image: Total exposure 2 hours in frames of 2 minutes each. At high magnfication you can see the trail consists of individual dots.
Image credit and copyright Dominique Dierick. Used with permission. Please contact us at GSFC-NASAWebb@mail.nasa.gov with any questions on usage and we can connect you.
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After Webb launched on December 25, 2021, the world followed its million mile journey to its final destination: an orbit around the second Lagrange Point. Many people sent us their imagery.
This image was captured by Dominique Dierick in Belgium on December 31st, 2021. Dominique noticed the telescope was quite a bit brighter than the night before despite it being more distant and wondered if anything new had been deployed. In fact we were in the middle of deploying the sunshield booms.
We think when this video sequence was captured around 00hUT (December 31st -> January 1st), there was only one boom out. youtu.be/9PM_ywxQ8OQ?feature=shared
"Total exposure 2 hours in frames of 2 minutes each. At high magnfication you can see the trail consists of individual dots."
Image credit and copyright Dominique Dierick. Used with permission. Please contact us at GSFC-NASAWebb@mail.nasa.gov with any questions on usage and we can connect you.
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After Webb launched on December 25, 2021, the world followed its million mile journey to its final destination: an orbit around the second Lagrange Point. Many people sent us their imagery.
This image was captured by Dominique Dierick in Belgium on January 1, 2023.
"Likely distance and angle of rotation causes a dimmer telescope, and corrections might explain brightness variation."
Image credit and copyright Dominique Dierick. Used with permission. Please contact us at GSFC-NASAWebb@mail.nasa.gov with any questions on usage and we can connect you.
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