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Re:SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up w... by grecy on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:21PM (#37576916)
> Too bad it ruined the sky for the 15K professional astronomers out there and a big part of the millions of amateurs as well.

Checkout the latest updates on the new sats, the problem has been fixed.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/no-more-astronomy-photobombs-spac...

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Re:SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up w... by ancientworldnow on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:45PM (#37577246)
The article doesn't say that it's been fixed, merely there's a new attempt to lessen the issue that is being tested with the latest batch (which were still easily visible by eye via earth bound observers).
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Re:SpaceX projected 20M Starlink users by 2022–it ended up w... by schiffern on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:04PM (#37578287)
I think they meant to post a different link. The latest satellites are dimmer than 7 apparent magnitude (meeting the AAS recommendation) despite being 4x larger.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657

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