3 ms·
> Too bad it ruined the sky for the 15K professional astronomers out there and a big part of the millions of amateurs as well. Checkout the latest updates on
by grecy 3y ago
> Too bad it ruined the sky for the 15K professional astronomers out there and a big part of the millions of amateurs as well.
Checkout the latest updates on the new sats, the problem has been fixed.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/no-more-astronomy-photobombs-spacex-shows-off-starlink-satellite-mirror https://www.pcmag.com/news/no-more-astronomy-photobombs-spac...
- ancientworldnow 3y agoThe article doesn't say that it's been fixed, merely there's a new attempt to lessen the issue that is being tested with the latest batch (which were still easily visible by eye via earth bound observers).
- schiffern 3y agoI think they meant to post a different link. The latest satellites are dimmer than 7 apparent magnitude (meeting the AAS recommendation) despite being 4x larger. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657 https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657