James Webb Telescope (JWST) arrived on the 24th of January at it's destination, an orbit around the Lagrange L2 point at about 1.5 MKm from Earth. Below, a 60 minutes time-lapse made from 60 images of 60 seconds each taken today. JWST can be easily identified as the moving point against the background stars. Apparent magnitude about 16.5, it will change depending on the sunshade orientation towards to the observer.
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Asteroid 1994 PC1 flyby
The asteroid 1994 PC1 flyby "near" the Earth -today at about 1% of the distance Sun Earth, it's closest approach to earth.
Video composition from 81 individual 3 second each images taken from the Carpe Noctem Observatory. A combination of tracking on stars, beginning and ending, and tracking on the asteroid, center has been used so the asteroid can be easily distinguish from the background stars.
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