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7 January 2022 at 8:09 pm
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Philip Masding
Participant
I imaged JWST on 05/1/2022 for just over an hour and in that time its brightness seemed to vary quite a bit as seen in this stack:
This graph shows the brightness of JWST over the period compared to 3 other field stars of similar brightness
I was wondering what caused this variation because I assumed the spacecraft is not rotating and that the change in viewing angle over this time period would not be that great.