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Hi Frank, I noticed that too! Could it be that the JWST is orbiting the L2 Lagrange point? Or is it a small arc in the overall path that the craft is taking? If you look at its route below, JWST is at its peak 'bendy point' in its track for the time that I caught this image. JWST Path for the Year.j...

...from this past week.

Wow, Pete, this is fantastic!!

I even looked at it magnified at 3000 x 2024 px

Nice work.

That's a beautiful shot, Roger.

Hey, thanks Pete. I used a freeware program called PIPP to create this animation. I believe that you are already familiar with it. All 90 .fits files were loaded right into the program. Then it's a matter of tweaking the settings and seeing the result. They actually make it pretty easy to see the ef...

If you haven't seen it yet, what are you WAITING for?? Peak viewing of this comet is happening for the next several days, until the moon interferes. I was out during the wee hours of January 24th. My current imaging rig is a CCD camera attached to a 3-inch refractor. I took 1-minute exposures in suc...

Pete, You need a long exposure to capture the full globe of nebulosity. This will burn out the core, and details cannot be recovered. This is a series of 3-minute exposures: ORION LONG.jpg And you need some much shorter exposures, being cautious NOT to over-expose the centre. This is a stack of 30-s...

I live in the same town as Mike.
I don't mind picking up the items he would like.

Nice report, Pete.
And your images continue to get better and better as time goes on.
See you on Saturday night.