This is the L2 orbit.
All this to get the telescope far enough away from the Earth and Sun to take a good picture.
Joe
I'm still not convinced that it will be far enough from earth not to suffer light pollution from the big b*st*rd parking lot floodlights that the nursing home behind my home installed, thereby ruining any attempt at backyard astronomy.
All this to get the telescope far enough away from the Earth and Sun to take a good picture.
That’s royalty American style.Matthew,
Or did you mean a picture from the telescope?
Joe
P.S. That kid at the bottom right!
Sean,
Aye, it's amazing what you or your camera can see if you get away from city lights.
If you do go ahead and get a proper scope, your location will enable you to see deep sky objects (nebulae, galaxies etc.) much better, so prioritize aperture!The cottage I bought last year is in the Cairngorms Dark Sky Park, with various locations in some of the quiet valleys nearby that have negligible light pollution (and even veiwing from my back garden should be decent I think), so I'm thinking about getting a half decent telescope so am currently researching that with a plan to get one this year.
Planets going supernova?For me, I am really looking forward to another Ultra Deep Field image and what this may unveil. Hopefully, they'll take this of a much larger area this time as well. Also, any images of planets having gone supernova.
I also can't wait for those unexpected revelations, that I am sure it will reveal. Especially as it looks further back in time, to just 100 million years after the so called Big Bang, if indeed that actually happened at all.
It really is an exciting time to be alive, so I hope that the situation with Russia doesn't escalate to the point where this will be impacted.