• crosswind [they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Is Webb even positioned where it can observe an eclipse?

    Pretty sure it’s not

    • ryepunk [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      It's orbiting a Lagrange point somewhere quite far from earth, certainly farther than the moon anyways.

      • crosswind [they/them]
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        8 months ago

        The tip of the lunar umbra just barely reaches the Earth, and Webb is at L2, about five times farther away. It's not seeing it at all,