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The noise looks very predictable, should be super simple to filter out
by duaoebg 7y ago
The noise looks very predictable, should be super simple to filter out
- shadowgovt 7y agoEssentially. It's an inconvenience for individual astronomers who time-share on telescopes that sometimes a blob of Starlink passes and sometimes it doesn't. If the full constellation is launched and disbursed, everyone will be inconvenienced about equally, so the fairness issue goes away. And the degraded signal can be cleaned up with digital processing factoring in knowledge of the Starlink node positions.
- ISL 7y agoSuper simple == many people-centuries sapped from funding-strapped research. Furthermore, astronomy is just entering a paradigm where the entire sky can be imaged multiple times per night with great optical depth. Transients are going to be the next frontier, and that is precisely what these constellations will create. A few lost satellites with improperly-documented orbits can fake optical transients. Furthermore, radio astronomers have moved to the outback of Australia to get away from rare radio transients. A zoo of satellites is precisely something they don't need.