{"id":6738,"date":"2022-01-05T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:37:21","slug":"wst-fades-20220105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wst-fades-20220105\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb Space Telescope fading as it gets further away."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night my stalking of The Webb Space Telescope continued.
\nYes, I went out to see if I could still catch The Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n

I compared a few sources to predict the position, and found discrepancies between them all.
\nMore on that to come in a blog entry I will put up tonight…<\/p>\n

Anyway, I finally tracked Webb down and it has definitely faded since the 2nd of January.<\/p>\n

I estimated that it is now about +15th Magnitude.<\/p>\n

That’s not really surprising, as it was over 515,000 miles from Earth by the time I took these images.
\nI’m absolutely gobsmacked that I can pick it up at all from my back garden.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s the images stacked together showing the trail and the resulting animation:
\n\"JWST-Trail\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Last night my stalking of The Webb Space Telescope continued. Yes, I went out to see if I could still catch The Webb Space Telescope. I compared a few sources to predict the position, and found discrepancies between them all. More on that to come in a blog entry I will put up tonight… Anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"The Webb Space Telescope is fading","description":"The Webb Space Telescope is fading as the distance from Earth increases. Here's my images from the 4th of January 2022"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6744,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}