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I went camping this past weekend and I couldn’t look up at night without immediately seeing multiple satellites wandering around. It was cool as a kid when I saw my first Iridium satellite, but the current swarm of lights feels like we have ruined the sky.
I was under the impression that these constellations would only be visible to the naked eye during deployment and after reaching their final orbit, would not be visible anymore.
Some constellations are more visible than others. For example, “Satellite Constellations Exceed the Limits of Acceptable Brightness Established by the IAU”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00107
This figure is from the paper. Everything above the green line is visible to the naked eye.
This is depressing. We should’ve made that shit illegal.
