Re:Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the ...
by teslabox on Sunday May 26, 2019 @01:58PM
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The point of my post was supposed to be that people who care about earth-based astronomy really need to resist the proliferation of white led streetlights. Kids who grow up without ever seeing stars aren’t likely to care about the night sky.
Re:Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the ...
by stcredzero on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:23PM
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a story about going to a planetarium as a child and seeing a realistic depiction of what the night sky looks like in the countryside. His immediate reaction: Fake!
There are designated areas of dark skies, and around observatories there are limits as to the lighting that can be used around.
But all that is being rendered irrelevant - there are no areas that won't be affected by these satellites - that's the whole point, they will cover pretty much everywhere.
And these are professional astronomers saying that they are affected. The fact that you, and others, don't really care and aren't affected isn't the point. There's a very real risk that these satellites will kill Earth-based professional astronomy, and large scale space astronomy isn't cost-effective.