“a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System. Now, the orbiting satellites themselves only appear as streaks because of the long camera exposure, over 10 minutes in this case. On the contrary, to the eye, satellites appear as points that drift slowly across the night sky and shine by reflecting sunlight – primarily just after sunset and before sunrise. The featured image was taken just before sunrise two weeks ago from Bavaria, Germany.”
I guess the only ways to access the natural sky is to leave the atmosphere or to use AI to remove the trails.
Out of curiosity, why are the trails dotted? Was tje shutter closed periodically?
I remember being a kid and looking up at a mostly still and dark sky. Fast forward to when I started hiking and camping much more in my thirties. I’m creeped out by the LEO satellites whipping around. I dont know exactly why. It feels like something changed that shouldn’t have. A place that we used to stare into the limitless beyond is now barred or trespassed by something so terrestrial.
You were looking at a mostly dark sky because of light pollution. If there is no clouds, a night sky is anything but dark and empty.
They should put a tax on light pollution like a reoccurring tax to have These types of things up in the sky so there’s a cost to it
It is trivial to filter out satellites from night sky photography. We don’t need AI. It’s been like this for decades.
it doesn’t seem so trivial for the bullshit trashpile of starlink satellites. either way there’s no reason for those to be allowed to exist other than corruption.
I wonder if we could paint satellites in fanta black to minimize the reflections
i was so worried about this when I first heard of the sheer amount of starlink crap being launched into orbit. upset that my worries were justified :(
Don’t worry too much yet, it’s still bound to get worse
I wonder what those “no contact” tribes think of the increase in moving stars
The Sentinelese are the last men standing.
I really admire the Sentinelese. In the face of overwhelming technological disparity, they still fight back against any outside intrusion. I wonder what kind of stories they tell each other about the outside world
It’s right there.This is terrible, but in isolation, this picture looks dope
Strangely enough i saw it almost immediately.
Taking the opportunity to share some cool astrophotography data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory terrestrial telescope in Chile
What’s the big horzontal one at the top?
It’s only a matter of time before one hits another and the debris from that hits a 3rd one, and so on until there’s nothing left but debris, preventing the launch of any more. Maybe then we’ll get some peace around here.
Thankfully they’re low enough orbit that their orbit would decay pretty quickly. It’d be a superb show as the sky lit up with millions of pieces of burning debris. Not sure what it would do for the atmosphere though. It would be a fair amount of metals being vaporised.
Pretty sure it would do absolutely nothing to the atmosphere
Space is pretty big and accidental collisions like that are quite unlikely actually. But of course space debris is a real problem, just not quite in the way you describe I think.
That would actually be a dope terrorist movie plot. Just launching a satellite with the sole purpose of destroying as many satellites as possible.
The USA, China, Russia and India have all already tested such things, to no one’s surprise.
Yeah the major powers have anti satellite weapons. Shits fucked
EMP boom!
Surely this is a bunch of trains right? If this is only 10 minutes of exposure and that’s just the random floaters, Astrophotography is kinda fucked. Last time I went out to shoot was 4 years ago and you could see the satellites with the naked eye. It was nowhere near this many in the sky at once.
Stupid question: Are they blinking or is that light reflecting? If they’re blinking, why do they blink with visible light?
The post says it’s the reflecting sunlight at dawn/dusk. Just need to read beyond the headline.
Well, I did say it was a stupid question. xD
Almost all, if not every satellite is going to be reflection. And it’s going to be significantly worse at sunset and dawn since that’s when the satellite is still in the sun but the ground is dark. That just happens to be when comets are typically most visible.
That just happens to be when comets are typically most visible.
To give a little more context. The tail is created by the solar wind, and is strongest when the comet is closest to the sun. Being near the sun makes it appear close to the sun in the sky (obviously). That puts comets in the daytime sky and impossible to see. It only dawn and dusk when you’re still able to see in the right direction and the sky is dim enough that you are able to observe comets.
May be an artifact of stacking. Each line in the segment could be a single long exposure.
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