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JWST at L2, James Muehlner

JWST at L2

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Description

After I discovered the innovative technique of pointing my telescope in the right direction, I was finally able to find JWST, now 1.5 million km away, at L2.

This animation is 60 seconds per frame, 62 frames total, played back at 10 FPS.

The first frame was at 21:16 PST

I plate solved an image with centered on the purported space telescope at 21:50: http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/5572527#annotated
07h 00m 45.932s
+05° 49' 12.765"

This agrees well with JPL's predicted location for San Francisco at the time, which is
07 00 46.80
+05 49 07.7

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