Presuming everything goes to plan, how awesome is this thing

>>8791379
Like 10 awesome

>>8791385
Damn

>>8791379
pretty goddamned awesome.

>>8791379
It's a meme. Why spend money on space shit when DeShawn needs welfare?

>>8791395
Because I wanna see into the past before I die

>>8791397
Pay for it yourself. The rest of the tax payers will make sure Tyrone gets his degree in African Studies

Maybe if those FUCKING BAGUETTE COLONIES would stop STRIKING

>>8791379
Anybody have any info on the resolving power of this thing? My Google Fu is flailing.

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>>8791379
Webb going to sit at L2.
Herschell already there.

MFW...

>>8791451
Well it wont be operating in the visual spectrum, not sure if that answers your question though

>>8791503
So no pics of the Apollo landing sites then? A new round of those always produces lulz.

>>8791520
Dear god no, im still struggling with the LRO pictures and people going all autismo over how they cant read the shoe-size from the astronaut footprints and shit like that

>>8791454
I've actually wondered the same, how large is
the lagrange point?
what region is considered stable?

>>8791454
Herschell hasn't been at L2 for years.
>>8793298
>how large is the lagrange point?
Technically it's an infinitesimal point, but Herschel for example meandered around a Lissajous orbit of the point spanning over a million kilometers wide (though the radial component did not vary by much). Stationing numerous spacecraft there would probably not be a significant collision concern, even if you were confining them all to Earth's penumbra (which neither Herschell nor JWST do).
>what region is considered stable?
None of it. There's technically only one equilibrium point, but it's radially unstable and if left un-adjusted, the slightest disturbance will cause an object there to either slip away into orbit around the Sun, or slide back down into high Earth orbit. The other axes (tangential and orbit-normal) are stable, however, hence the wide Halo and Lissajous orbits.

Have a video of JWST's intended halo orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyyQqaF4tNY

>>8791520
i don't think it can't take images of earth, the moon or any heavenly bodies, that are closer to the sun than the telescope