Forgive the naive question, but what am I looking at, exactly? Which of the streaks are geminid meteors, and which of them are satellites?
roomian on
It’s just horrible. Thx Musk for Starlink. Amount of satellites and space junk over the Earth is just crazy. And it will be worse 😕
ExpertExploit on
Also worth noting, a good majority of these are planes. You can tell from the dashed lines, which are from the flashing of the planes.
It also makes sense that they are the boldest lines since planes are obviously closer to the ground.
SapphireDingo on
just wait until the collisions start
CatDaddyTom on
I was a Starlink customer until a few weeks ago. Delighted to toss my antenna off the roof, save $120/month, sold my gear when AT&T fiber showed up. I’m absolutely disgusted with what is happening to they skies. I have 4 telescopes and recently sold one of them. It’s sad that this will just keep getting worse and nobody cares. Can’t even go to the darkest sites on the planet and get away from this shit.
b407driver on
OP did you use a star tracker? If not, how did you isolate all the satellite streaks?
jokkum22 on
Wall-E. Watch it and take notice.
gorginhanson on
Great, now people are going to have to start paying space rent.
wileysegovia on
If anything, if I was a satellite orbit engineer, I’d be worried about the wake turbulence from the other satellites
smellmyfingerplz on
It will be fun when cell phones and / or internet / tv / gps etc stops working due to satellites colliding or hitting space junk.
4RCH43ON on
Getting? Brother, we’re past the point of congested orbits space, but yeah, astronomy is largely ruined. It’s honestly incredible just how dystopian our future-now reality has become in such a relatively short period of time.
We seem to react to our own impacts way too slow, or sometimes not at all and this is just how things end up when we cannot given ourselves as a species, but such is “progress,” just know they most of those satellites are probably Starlink, so you know where to address the complaint for a majority of this mess, among others.
Spartcus3 on
Wouldn’t it also be space debris?
MrLuchador on
Well done, our night skies look like a 4 year old phone screen
weristjonsnow on
Think how fucking confused an ancient sky watcher would be if they teleported to today
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Forgive the naive question, but what am I looking at, exactly? Which of the streaks are geminid meteors, and which of them are satellites?
It’s just horrible. Thx Musk for Starlink. Amount of satellites and space junk over the Earth is just crazy. And it will be worse 😕
Also worth noting, a good majority of these are planes. You can tell from the dashed lines, which are from the flashing of the planes.
It also makes sense that they are the boldest lines since planes are obviously closer to the ground.
just wait until the collisions start
I was a Starlink customer until a few weeks ago. Delighted to toss my antenna off the roof, save $120/month, sold my gear when AT&T fiber showed up. I’m absolutely disgusted with what is happening to they skies. I have 4 telescopes and recently sold one of them. It’s sad that this will just keep getting worse and nobody cares. Can’t even go to the darkest sites on the planet and get away from this shit.
OP did you use a star tracker? If not, how did you isolate all the satellite streaks?
Wall-E. Watch it and take notice.
Great, now people are going to have to start paying space rent.
If anything, if I was a satellite orbit engineer, I’d be worried about the wake turbulence from the other satellites
It will be fun when cell phones and / or internet / tv / gps etc stops working due to satellites colliding or hitting space junk.
Getting? Brother, we’re past the point of congested orbits space, but yeah, astronomy is largely ruined. It’s honestly incredible just how dystopian our future-now reality has become in such a relatively short period of time.
We seem to react to our own impacts way too slow, or sometimes not at all and this is just how things end up when we cannot given ourselves as a species, but such is “progress,” just know they most of those satellites are probably Starlink, so you know where to address the complaint for a majority of this mess, among others.
Wouldn’t it also be space debris?
Well done, our night skies look like a 4 year old phone screen
Think how fucking confused an ancient sky watcher would be if they teleported to today
That looks a lot like a photo taken behind scratched plexiglass.
[https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.freepik.com%2Fpremium-photo%2Ftexture-scratched-black-plastic_961925-318.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=15833962f8a9c23161b8265b768032ab3518052225916f83126ad649e69bc6c4](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.freepik.com%2Fpremium-photo%2Ftexture-scratched-black-plastic_961925-318.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=15833962f8a9c23161b8265b768032ab3518052225916f83126ad649e69bc6c4)
Ah so 11 hours means some of these could be captured several times.