Re: brightness of James Webb Space Telescope

From: Daryl Bahls via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:12:57 -0800
Hi, Bill,

I've forwarded your comments and links to him.  Thanks, so much.  His
observations will be from a location in the eastern Caribbean so if the
clouds cooperate ...

Daryl

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 12:45 PM Bill Gray via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
wrote:

> Hi Daryl,
>
>     We have some observations now...
>
> https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/37029
>
>     ...from which we can say something about what brightness to expect :
>
> https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/37030
>
>     I've gotten some confirming observations at a similar magnitude.
>
>     Your friend might be able to get both JWST and its booster,
> somewhere around mag 13 when night falls on the east coast of the US at
> 0:00 UTC tonight and dropping about a magnitude over the next twelve hours.
>
>     And if your friend happens to measure astrometry from the images,
> especially of the booster or of any other hardware that shows up,  I'd
> be quite interested.  (JWST will be tracked to a fare-thee-well,  I'm
> sure,  using radio.  The booster and any other bits of hardware will be
> mostly ignored,  though they'll be a minor annoyance for the asteroid
> surveys.  I'd like to be able to tell them where such stuff is going.)
>
> -- Bill
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