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JWST orbiting SEMB-L2, Mike Hamende

JWST orbiting SEMB-L2

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I've been wanting to get another shot of the JWST to see if it would still be visible while orbiting L2,  I also wanted to see if the curvature of the orbit would be visible as well.  Turns out it is still fairly bright at about mag 17.2, unfortunately I don't believe the curvature is apparent. The arc it follows in the gif is likely due to parallax from the Earth's rotation.

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