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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) enroute to its L2 orbital destination, Malcolm Loro

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) enroute to its L2 orbital destination

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On January 2nd, with the JWST having just completed its sunshield deployment and tensioning, I aimed my telescope and took 30-second exposures for 45 minutes. This gif captures the JWST traveling for those 45 minutes towards its eventual L2 orbital position. This is a cropped image, and given my FOV I'd estimate the angular distance traveled here at about 4 arc-minutes.

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