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Are you aware of how many of them there are? And where they will be in the sky? And how low they are? And how shinny? And that they perform their own station k
by verytrivial 7y ago
Are you aware of how many of them there are? And where they will be in the sky? And how low they are? And how shinny? And that they perform their own station keeping so you can't plan your observations around them? And how much money is being spent on Really Big Telescopes that are due to come online over the next few years? I think the single term 'clutter' needs to stretched a LOT to cover both before and after these are up.
And their 'low reflection' ones only drop mag by 0.8. It's a looming disaster (refreshingly unrelated to the other more important one happening right now): https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/24/21190273/spacex-starlink-satellite-internet-constellation-astronomy-coating https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/24/21190273/spacex-starlink-...