Blinded by the light: How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?

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Blinded by the light: How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
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Leonard David is an award-winning space journalist who has been reporting on space activities for more than 50 years. Currently writing as Space.

This is NGC 457, the ET or Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia, in a stack of images showing the total number of satellite trails recorded over the 36 minutes of total exposure time on a night in mid-October. By coincidence, the trails frame the main subject, but the number of satellites now above us make it nearly impossible to take a long-exposure image, certainly at the start or end of a night, without recording at least one satellite trail, if not more, per image.

But in reality, the legal regime is not so one-sided, according to Koplow:"Astronomers also have legal rights to free use of space, and they need not stand by idly while their profession is damaged."Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors

They did so by studying and documenting the true dimensions of the problem, beginning to invent or conceptualize mitigation measures, and entering into discussions with

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