2645: The Best Camera
| The Best Camera |
 Title text: The best camera is the one at L2. |
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"The Best Camera: Is the One That's With You" is a book by photographer Chase Jarvis, celebrating mobile phone cameras, not for their photographic or technical quality, but rather for the fact that you always have it when an interesting subject appears. However, in this case "The best camera" refers to the James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft depicted in the third frame. The first pictures taken by telescope were recently released, showing objects as they were 13 billion years ago, which was unprecedented. The title text references Lagrange Point 2, one of the five places in space where something can be stationary relative to the Earth and sun, and which the aforementioned telescope revolves around - not exactly your pocket.
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- [Each panel features an image of space, with text printed in white at the top of each panel. The first panel says:]
- They say the best camera is the one you have with you.
- [A panel showing more stars and galaxies visible.]
- It turns out
- [A panel showing even more stars and galaxies visible. At the center of the panel is an outline drawing in white of the James Webb Space Telescope.]
- they're wrong.
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Removed the part about L2 being in Earth's umbra. Although this is true, the JWST is not actually at L2; it revolves around L2, specifically to avoid being in the Earth's umbra (and the moon's) and therefore avoid changes in temperature. DKMell (talk) 17:52, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
Does anyone know whether they use SAOImageDS9 or Astropy to make full color images? Both are listed under post-pipeline tools. General instructions are in this paper but it's not a software tutorial, and it doesn't mention un-redshifting very distant objects like in Dr. Becky's video (and which they didn't do completely for the deep field because the lensed galaxies were actually red.) 172.70.206.213 05:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- Can we use the published image data files to produce a SMACS 0723 image with only the far-redshifted, lensed objects? 172.70.211.36 16:01, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- There is a tutorial at https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/jwst-data by a guy who uses PixInsight, which unlike DS9 and Astropy is commercial (€230) but a anyone can use it free for 45 days. I think the instructions for what you want to do are at https://pixinsight.com/tutorials/PCC/index.html and the data is here for SMACS 0723.
- You can use Imviz to colorize too. 172.70.207.8 00:44, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
When discussing biosignatures of exoplanets, should we draw the distinction between ozone and water? 162.158.106.113 11:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
