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Brian Ottum
Animas, NM USA
01/07/2022
10:30 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon 5DmkIII, 10" f/5 newt, PlaneWave L-350 mount. Remotely controlled from home in Michigan. Fifteen minutes of total exposures, combined.

Post-processing Details:

Calibrate, align and combine using ImagesPlus. Photoshop to emphasize the faint stuff.

Image Details:

After a couple failed attempts, I finally caught JWST! SkySafari App was wrong, JPL's Horizons was right. It seems about 17th magnitude on Jan 7. I have a video of the data as well.