No cameras. The telescope has built-in sensors and switches designed expressly to provide all the info necessary to inform engineers about its health/status, which is standard practice with spacecraft.
Quite possibly, though it'll likely be a dot. We had a guest blogger on @NASAblueshift write about how he observed Herschel (which was also at L2) before it went into its graveyard orbit around the sun:https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/index.php/2013/07/01/finding-herschel/ …
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