I’d have to read it more throughly, but the biggest annoyance with starlink is right after launch when they’re all clustered and super bright because they haven’t hit their normal positions. When you’re doing really long exposures, a satellite screaming through your field momentarily is easy enough to filter out those noisy frames.
Is light pollution from satellites great for earth based astronomy, no. Are they ruining astronomy like so much click bait leads you to believe, not in my opinion.
Different telescopes will have different impacts and separate from the direct trails general light pollution is absolutely a problem. The don’t build these things in the middle of no where for fun.
This isn’t a random science writer relaying a sci-fi conversation they had, it’s a respected astronomer with multiple publications in Nature.
I’d have to read it more throughly, but the biggest annoyance with starlink is right after launch when they’re all clustered and super bright because they haven’t hit their normal positions. When you’re doing really long exposures, a satellite screaming through your field momentarily is easy enough to filter out those noisy frames.
Is light pollution from satellites great for earth based astronomy, no. Are they ruining astronomy like so much click bait leads you to believe, not in my opinion.
Different telescopes will have different impacts and separate from the direct trails general light pollution is absolutely a problem. The don’t build these things in the middle of no where for fun.
This isn’t a random science writer relaying a sci-fi conversation they had, it’s a respected astronomer with multiple publications in Nature.