It's going to take about six weeks.
Switching between cameras in space is complicated, but the telescope will eventually be able to use multiple instruments at the same time, according to the update, which was written by Jonathan Gardner, Webb deputy senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
"All the cameras see the sky at the same time; to switch a target from one camera to another, we repoint the telescope to put the target into the field of view of the other instrument," Gardner wrote. The James Webb Space Telescope after separating from the Ariane 5 rocket that carried it into space. This is one of our last views of the impressive telescope.
FGS reached its own milestone recently, which was finishing"fine guide mode." That occurs when the guider zeroes in on a guide star to the instrument's highest possible precision. Additionally, engineers are taking"dark" images to see what happens when the instrument has no light reaching it, which allows personnel to more precisely calibrate the instrument.
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