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[RichA]

https://phys.org/new...atest-mega.html

 

But the news is good the satellites are "only" mag 7.  BTW, a few dozen mag 7 stars makes a naked eye cluster, even from a city.

Edited by RichA, 23 October 2024 - 08:48 PM.

[Jhunt]

I feel like I got internet hobby of enjoy the skies way too late. I always wondered what it looked like before all of these satellites. 

[jlinsobe]

UFO….no its UAP….  Or EMJ

 

Elon Musk Junk

[Astrojensen]

I feel like I got internet hobby of enjoy the skies way too late. I always wondered what it looked like before all of these satellites. 

As long as the Sun is more than 18° below the horizon, the sky looks as it did before satellites. Then they're all in shadow and invisible. It's when the Sun is around 10 to 12° below the horizon that the sky looks "interesting" with loads of satellites crawling across the sky, even to the naked eye. Then the sky is dark enough to show even faint satellites, yet the Sun is high enough to clearly illuminate even low orbit satellites. 

 

Thank God for Sigma-Kappa stacking if you're an astrophotographer. 

 

 

Clear skies!

Thomas, Denmark

[Jhunt]

I wonder who will be next. So we have SpaceX with Starlink, China with their Thousand Sails, so is the EU next then? 

 

Russia doesn't seem like they'll be competing in this area anytime soon. 

[jlinsobe]

I wonder who will be next. So we have SpaceX with Starlink, China with their Thousand Sails, so is the EU next then? 

 

Russia doesn't seem like they'll be competing in this area anytime soon. 

 

India has an advanced space program.   
 

the world , an ideal world that is, doesn’t need redundant gps and communication systems.  
Ideally we could jointly build robust space and telcomm systems for the benefit of humanity.  
But that is just a dreamer’s train of thought. 

[GeorgeLiv]

I remember looking at dark skies in the late 1970s, just a few years before the 1981-82 solar max commenced, from the Mediterranean (Italy & Greece) and remarking how broad the Milky-way was. Although I hadn't a complete understanding of the magnitude scale yet, the limiting magnitude was undoubtedly better than 7. Nothing was stirring except for the occasional faint meteor. It was tranquility at its best, attached with a profound understating. Now it has suddenly become so annoying and disturbing watching form dark-skies that I'm contemplating selling my remote property.