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Does James Webb do video?

• Symbiote 3y ago
  I doubt it — would anything move fast enough to be usefully recorded?
• deleted 3y ago
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• nirav72 3y ago
  Most likely not. Other than maybe stitch several images together in post-processing. Although not sure what use video would be on JWST. It's mostly staring at distant objects where motion wouldn't be perceivable. Unless it's taking images of a planet with several orbiting moons. Even then, it would just be would a handful of frames stitched together here on earth.
• schainks 3y ago
  No, but it does run Javascript: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23206110/james-webb-space-telescope-javascript-jwst-instrument-control https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23206110/james-webb-space...
  • dclowd9901 3y ago
    Unreal; you mean I could actually potentially write software for a space telescope?
  • deadfish 3y ago
    The first contact from aliens will surely be them exploiting this with an XSS attack to set window.location to a Rick Roll video.
  • acqq 3y ago
    "the language the scripts are written in is called Nombas ScriptEase 5.00e." https://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/index.htm https://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/index.htm "Nombas doesn't exist any more. All the good stuff was sold to Openwave, then sold to someone else, then sold to someone else, then I lost track."
• _joel 3y ago
  No, these are targets that are planned months in advance and at relatively long exposures in order to collect enough photons to, well, actually see the thing. You certainly wouldn't get 60FPS, that's for sure.
• petabyt 3y ago
  Of a planet, I guess in theory it could take a 15fps video, I dont think the sensor was designed for that.
• hk1337 3y ago
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