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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by ddalex on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:52PM (#29860264)
The earth's shadow never reaches L2 anyhow - it's only penumbra at that distance since the angular size of the earth is smaller then the angular size of the Sun
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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by mturmon on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:54PM (#29865655)
Good point. JW is at about 1.01 AU, and the solar radius is a bit over 100x the Earth radius, so there’s not really even a “shadow”.
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