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What are they going to do about that 10s of thousands of Starlink satellites that will start interfering with observations?

• starik36 5y ago
  The newer Starlink satellites have a sun shield. That should, in theory, make them impervious to observations.
  • tejtm 5y ago
    Where "impervious" means you can't see through the the sun shield either.
    • starik36 5y ago
      At their size (10m x 2.8m), it probably won't even measure a full pixel.
    • GekkePrutser 5y ago
      That's much less of a problem. A bright point in the sky will bloom in the optics and blot out a larger space than it occupies. A dark spot doesn't.
• mlindner 5y ago
  Starlink satellites aren't really naked eye visible anymore except in cases where they flare from lucky angles. They're around magnitude 6.5 which is basically at the limit of human vision.