this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can just say Starlink, it's the only one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Amazon is planning and implementing the same.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Starlink is causing problems, but it seems to me that this image was made in bad faith to oversell the case. The caption says it's a combination of 29 separate exposures, but if those exposures were combined properly, you wouldn't see the satellites (median combination does wonders, and there are more sophisticated techniques which do even better). Some streaks start at one chip edge and extend to another chip edge, without continuity across the focal plane. So it's not at all clear just how this image was created. And why on earth is it not flat-fielded? Maybe this is just really sloppy image processing, but even amateurs can do far better than this, leaving the final combination with no satellites at all.