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Re:Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms by petschge on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:20PM (#27896525)
I have heard astronomers estimating it at up to 30% of the observing time for existing optical telescopes. Note that this is the instrument class that has t to 20 times as many proposals as they can actually observe.
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Re:Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms by Retric on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:25PM (#27896588)
Yep, and others say it’s less than 1%. Neither of them are lying, but their talking about different kinds of observations.

My assumption is scheduling should solve most of these issues in terms of large instruments.

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