Re:Giant, All-Seeing Telescope Is Set to Revolutionize Astro...
by soco on Friday June 20, 2025 @07:45AM
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I guess Rubin will be the last telescope built on the Earth surface right? Little use to have stronger eyes only to have them blinded...
Re:Giant, All-Seeing Telescope Is Set to Revolutionize Astro...
by perilunar on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:09AM
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Building telescopes in high-earth or solar orbit has other advantages too: you can make them much bigger, and don't have to account for atmospheric distortions, etc. The downside is cost of launching them, but the same SpaceX that's 'ruining' the images is also making it much cheaper to launch them into space.
Re:Giant, All-Seeing Telescope Is Set to Revolutionize Astro...
by BotJunkie on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:26PM
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I visited there a few months ago, and satellites are not a big concern for Rubin in particular. It will visit every part of the sky over 800 times and add all those images together, and since the satellite trails won't cover the same things every time the overall impact on data is minimal. They estimate less than 1%, so the plan is to just run the survey for 1% longer.
I imagine these are like mosquitos in photoshoot where you try to capture a super hot model.