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 > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sat Dec 25 2021 - 15:13:54 UTC
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