SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy
“No one thought of this,” she said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.”I really have trouble believing that nobody mentioned adding thousands of satellites would go unnoticed. It is damn near impossible to take any image of the night sky without having a satellite streak through the frame. I have plenty of images with multiple satellites visible at the same time. In wide angle timelapse sequences, they are just small dots that move against the natural movement of the stars. In longer lenses/telescopes, they appear as long straight lines totally ruining the image.The first time I heard about thousands more of lower altitude satellites, my first thought was about this very thing. We had already had the discussions from the giant disco ball that was launched. It was planned to be short lived, but it caused quite the stir. Saying people at SpaceX didn't think about it is one thing, but to claim nobody in the astronomy community didn't is hard to take. Maybe they didn't have any way to voice those thoughts in a way that SpaceX could hear.