by Chris Peterson » Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:24 pm
CharlyUY wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:48 pm
The exploration of the deep Cosmos in ligth and radio waves will suffer a slowdown to the point of useless from ground in spite of the giant telescopes being constructed due to the interference in visible and radio waves caused by the satellite constellations, is incredible that at this point there are no protection laws for the sky, research will be highly impacted as well as a considerable number of other satellites, space probes an other launching because its impossible to predict the position of each satellite and all the debris it creates with enough precision, observations like star occultations will be useless due to incertainity, also consider the out of order satellites floating without control and the enhaced chance a meteor hit a satellite of these constellations causing uncontrolled debris, even more. No less is the RF contamination from the sky that might affect humans, wildlife and plants as well as molecules in the atmosphere. Humans are doing exactly the opposite of what they say, increasing space contamination
Goodluck astronomers and astrophysics! Money is stronger than knowledge, rich businessmen are blowing that candle in the dark called science... :cry:
I predict very little impact on visual astronomy from satellite constellations. It's actually something of a challenge to produce an image like that in today's APOD. Normal image processing techniques make the satellite tracks go away automatically. It takes more work to produce a final image that retains them! The vast majority of astronomical imaging utilizes stacks of several images, which allows artifacts to be removed- not just satellites, but airplanes, asteroids, cosmic ray strikes. It is only a handful of special visual projects which involve very fast, large aperture survey telescopes that are going to have problems, because many satellites are bright enough with these scopes to cause blooming on their CCD detectors, which can ruin the entire frame. But I expect we'll see technical solutions to this problem (like selective shuttering).
The RF all these satellites utilize is harmless to biological systems and has no effect on the atmosphere. It's potentially a problem for radio telescopes, but in most cases the radios on the satellites have steerable beams or can be turned off completely, and they are already experimenting with doing so when in the path of critical equipment on the ground.
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The exploration of the deep Cosmos in ligth and radio waves will suffer a slowdown to the point of useless from ground in spite of the giant telescopes being constructed due to the interference in visible and radio waves caused by the satellite constellations, is incredible that at this point there are no protection laws for the sky, research will be highly impacted as well as a considerable number of other satellites, space probes an other launching because its impossible to predict the position of each satellite and all the debris it creates with enough precision, observations like star occultations will be useless due to incertainity, also consider the out of order satellites floating without control and the enhaced chance a meteor hit a satellite of these constellations causing uncontrolled debris, even more. No less is the RF contamination from the sky that might affect humans, wildlife and plants as well as molecules in the atmosphere. Humans are doing exactly the opposite of what they say, increasing space contamination
Goodluck astronomers and astrophysics! Money is stronger than knowledge, rich businessmen are blowing that candle in the dark called science... :cry:
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I predict very little impact on visual astronomy from satellite constellations. It's actually something of a challenge to produce an image like that in today's APOD. Normal image processing techniques make the satellite tracks go away automatically. It takes more work to produce a final image that retains them! The vast majority of astronomical imaging utilizes stacks of several images, which allows artifacts to be removed- not just satellites, but airplanes, asteroids, cosmic ray strikes. It is only a handful of special visual projects which involve very fast, large aperture survey telescopes that are going to have problems, because many satellites are bright enough with these scopes to cause blooming on their CCD detectors, which can ruin the entire frame. But I expect we'll see technical solutions to this problem (like selective shuttering).
The RF all these satellites utilize is harmless to biological systems and has no effect on the atmosphere. It's potentially a problem for radio telescopes, but in most cases the radios on the satellites have steerable beams or can be turned off completely, and they are already experimenting with doing so when in the path of critical equipment on the ground.