Posted on 04/28/2022 1:35:38 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments. Upon completing the seventh and final stage of telescope alignment, the team held a set of key decision meetings and unanimously agreed that Webb is ready to move forward into its next and final series of preparations, known as science instrument commissioning. This process will take about two months before scientific operations begin in the summer.
The alignment of the telescope across all of Webb’s instruments can be seen in a series of images that captures the observatory’s full field of view.
“These remarkable test images from a successfully aligned telescope demonstrate what people across countries and continents can achieve when there is a bold scientific vision to explore the universe,” said Lee Feinberg, Webb optical telescope element manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team’s most optimistic predictions. Webb’s mirrors are now directing fully focused light collected from space down into each instrument, and each instrument is successfully capturing images with the light being delivered to them.
The image quality delivered to all instruments is “diffraction-limited,” meaning that the fineness of detail that can be seen is as good as physically possible given the size of the telescope. From this point forward the only changes to the mirrors will be very small, periodic adjustments to the primary mirror segments.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.nasa.gov ...
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
At least they won’t have to deal with Air mass or wind shake.
Thanx much for the cross reference.
What the telescope’s instruments should be able to see has the potential to revolutionize science. Can’t wait.
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“I’ve trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”
Can’t wait!!!😀
The Messianic Light/Ohr haGanuz is the revelation of all knowledge. Keyword/concept being "light".
A vast "Webb" (integration) of knowledge you could say.
"As above, so below" -- what difference at this point does it make?
“If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
~Isaac Newton
Luke 24
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words* which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
"Let there be light."
*Webb: This is a primarily English and Scottish last name that was an occupational surname meaning “the webbe”, i.e. “the weaver”, deriving from the Middle English word webbe and Anglo-Saxon or Old English word webba.
“My God! It’s full of stars!”
High Flight. My dad loved that poem.
I anxiously await the pics and discoveries this magnificent instrument will deliver.
Elon Musk could have probably done it at half the cost and delivered it early and launched it on his own rocket. LOL
I anxiously await the pics and discoveries this magnificent instrument will deliver.
Elon Musk could have probably done it at half the cost and delivered it early and launched it on his own rocket. LOL
Obviously they can take pictures already. So why don’t they show one?
Can it find Putin?
I would like to see it do one shot of the catseye nebula a year.After several years, you could stitch all the shots into a vid and actually watch it expand. In addition to being cool, I think it could actually be useful from an actual scientific standpoint.
Link to a high resolution picture from all the instruments. https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/mirrorAlignment/mirrorAlignmentCompleteFullFieldImage-4000px.jpg
Remember when the TV stations would play that poem in a film before ending the broadcast for the night?
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