Processing Data From The James Webb Space Telescope
summary
JWST data is freely downloadable from MAST and handled the same way as backyard astro images: control a ZWO/ASI camera with a Raspberry Pi, shoot narrowband frames (some filters as fine as 2.8 nm narrowband), then stack hundreds of exposures with calibration sets (50–100 darks plus flats) — typical raw files ~400 MB each. After optics the target delivers about 20 photons per minute to the sensor, so use high QE detectors, heavy deconvolution and a fast workstation (example: 48 GB RAM disk) to finish processing in tens of minutes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:25John Davies terrestrial telescopes
- 8:24Narrowband filters
- 12:19Where Java comes in
- 17:29A single image
- 23:26Q&A
- 32:10James Webb Space Telescope
- 36:16Get the data from MAST
- 38:58The resolution
- 42:15Outro
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