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Webb has its first "test" deep image and is it amazing - considering this is early in the fine phasing, and that currently it is preforming better then they had expected, this is turning out to be everything and more then what NASA and the scientific community had hoped to achieve.

With its 21 ft. diameter mirror system (now acting as a single mirror), its light collecting power and resolution dwarf's any telescope ever put into space.

See: https://phys.org/news/2022-03-space-tel ... ombed.html
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Dennis, thanks for keeping us apprised of these developments. I'm looking forward to seeing what Webb comes up with when it becomes fully operational.

I haven't done one for a while, but there was a time there when I was compositing my photos of medieval ruins around the UK against starscapes from Hubbel. 'Portals of Stone,' I called 'em:

I'll attach one here while I'm at it:
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The thumbnail doesn't do it justice, click on it to see its full glory. That's Melrose Abbey, one of several such ruins in the Scottish Borders region.

Look at all them deep-space fusion reactors!

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While not Webb level ( ;) ), very nice photo creation. I would like to see more of those.
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The YouTube channel Braking Taps reversed engineered the mirror positioner and made a model using the published paper as a guide. It is rather nice that one of the original paper authors watched it and made a comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxH1sfJLBQ
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Dennis P Brown wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 1:45 pm While not Webb level ( ;) ), very nice photo creation. I would like to see more of those.
Like everything else in my life at the moment, that particular enterprise needs some organizing. In the meantime, you could try rummaging around here:

https://photos.cohesionarts.com/portalsofstone

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@Peter

Here is a wonderful example of starting with something with minimal complexity to test/understand an idea - https://youtu.be/3WBrqUa_1yk (Bob Warden, the Ball Aerospace engineer that wrote the 2006 paper [https://esmats.eu/amspapers/pastpapers/ ... warden.pdf] describing the adjustment mechanism for the JWT).
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Webb has reached a few major milestones but these comparison photo's between what Webb is doing already and the best previous Infrared telescope is simply amazing. See:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/05/09/ ... r-science/
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