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As much as I sympathize this feels like a necessary evil to me in a sense vaguely accerlationism like. I do think starlink can do more to help the situation th
by Havoc 3y ago
As much as I sympathize this feels like a necessary evil to me in a sense vaguely accerlationism like.
I do think starlink can do more to help the situation though. Sure they tweaked some of the satellites to minimise it, but they could do more. Presumably the know the precise location and orientation of each sat. Surely that can be packaged into a data stream that helps unfk the images? Maybe with a sprinkling of that AI musk has going? Astronomers is a pretty small crowd...can't be that hard for someone like musk to throw them a bone that acknowledges that they're getting the short end here
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThere's no need to predict them in advance. Astronomy photos taken from the ground aren't one long exposure. They're lots - hundreds even - of short ones, which are then "stacked" to reduce noise and increase dynamic range of the final image. It should be trivial to identify streaks in the stack and just throw out those images. I'd be surprised if they're not already doing that for the older satellites up there, and things like planes flying across the shot.
- throw_pm23 3y agoWhen you are driving towards a wall or a cliff you don't necessarily want to accelerate.
- Havoc 3y agoYou do if you think the gap between this cliff and the next can be jumped
- schiffern 3y ago>they could do more. Presumably the know the precise location and orientation of each sat. Surely that can be packaged into a data stream SpaceX already does that. https://youtu.be/MNc5yCYth5E?t=1717 https://youtu.be/MNc5yCYth5E?t=1717 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11123 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11123