Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations, including on the background sky brightness — mentioned by noosphr

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:45:20 GMT

Outside of a few places like the Himalayas or Australia isn't not possible to see the darkness everyone lived in until street lighting. This is the most accurate map and it still under reports light pollution under 21.5sqm https://www.darkskysites.com/ Worse satellite constilations may make it impossible to have a dark sky anywhere: https://arxiv.org/html/2604.09427v1 Led lights have caused such a massive increase in light pollution, let alone the effects on humans due to the blue spike, that they should be banned outright.

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Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations, including on the background sky brightness — HN submission

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:46:50 GMT

Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations

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Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations, including on the background sky brightness — mentioned by noosphr

Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations, including on the background sky brightness — HN submission