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Perhaps true for amateur astrophotography but not the case for professional astronomy. Please see reporting in e.g. [1] and [2]. Note that simply putting teles

• gpm 6y ago
  A few particularly large and particularly sensitive telescopes will have problems not easily resolvable by software, the vast majority of telescopes will not.
  • dx87 6y ago
    That actually sounds worse. Large expensive telescopes will have issues, but amateur astronomers will say there isn't any issue because the pictures they take with their smaller telescopes are cleaned up with software.
    • gpm 6y ago
      Arguably so (I'm going to generally stay out of value judgments), but do note that it's not all large expensive telescopes, it depends on the telescope.
      • shadowgovt 6y ago
        ... which has always been true. Several observatories were built near cities. As light pollution from terrestrial sources have increased, they've found their expensive optical telescopes become toys, and have moved their scientific collection utility over to radio.
  • JBorrow 6y ago
    Yes, these are massively important to professional astronomy and our understanding of the universe.
  • shadowgovt 6y ago
    Such concerns should probably be balanced against the potential the launch capacity of Starlink represents. I'm looking forward to someone launching a satellite telescope network with the collection radius of an Earth orbit.