Die Helligkeit der ersten chinesischen Breitbandkonstellationssatelliten alarmiert Astronomen

>The first satellites of a Chinese broadband constellation are significantly brighter than those of Western systems, posing a new challenge for astronomers.

>In a paper posted on the arXiv preprint server Sept. 30, a group of observational astronomers reported on observations of a set of 18 Qianfan, or “Thousand Sails,” satellites launched in August. The satellites are the first of a constellation that may ultimately consist of more than 14,000 satellites.

>The study found that the brightness of the satellites ranges from magnitude 8 when low in the sky to magnitude 4 when nearly overhead. That makes the satellites, at those higher elevations, bright enough to be seen by the naked eye…

This is a significant problem made all the worse by plans to have ‘more than 14,000 satellites’.

How long before they put RGBW lights on them and we see planet scale ads for Ali express and Temu.

There’s a reason we launched the Hubble and James Webb telescopes.

We’re slowly entering an age where conventional astronomical observations won’t be able to be done on earth. That’s not really a surprise. We’ve had garbage and dead satellites piling up around earth’s orbit for decades.