Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
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Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour stacked exposure from CFHT. This was from 2022, when there were thousands fewer satellites... This is dumb.

Image credit: P. Cowan/W. Fraser/S. Lawler/CLASSY Survey Team

(The small streaks that are similar lengths are actually asteroids!)

A starfield image from a professional telescope, divided up into many rectangles. There are lots of bright diagonal lines across the starfield, those are from satellites that flew through while the image was being taken.
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