Soon swamped in satellites

[vlaiv]

Ok, maybe vaporizing is not the best option, but giving it a gentle nudge to drift off into darkness of outer space?

 

[melsky]

 They are getting very faint now, this is my latest video taken a couple of days ago and most of the satellites are mag 7 unless they’re flaring which will happen a lot less in winter, the faintest stars in the video are about mag 10.

 

[Mr Spock]

We've trashed the planet and now we're doing the same in space. Thankfully we can't reach all that far out yet.

[gorann]

The Musky future........

Edited May 30, 2019 by gorann

[ollypenrice]

I think Elon Musk's parents have a lot to answer for. If he'd been called Sid Entwistle would any of this have arisen?

[The Admiral]

9 hours ago, gorann said:

The Musky future........

Is this place for real? How sad if it is, it needs someone to love it again!

Ian

[upahill]

56 minutes ago, The Admiral said:

Is this place for real? How sad if it is, it needs someone to love it again!

Ian

Wondered that too - but it looks like a diorama to me, or an odd photo effect.

[1CM69]

4 minutes ago, upahill said:

Wondered that too - but it looks like a diorama to me, or an odd photo effect.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=abandoned+observatory

maybe

Edited May 31, 2019 by 1CM69

[upahill]

Just now, 1CM69 said:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=abandoned+observatory&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari maybe

Yeah just looked it up - https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/nix-gerber-miniature-interior-sets/

Some pretty amazing models - I thought the telescope mount looked a lot like a ball head for a camera

[The Admiral]

11 minutes ago, upahill said:

Yeah just looked it up - https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/nix-gerber-miniature-interior-sets/

Some pretty amazing models - I thought the telescope mount looked a lot like a ball head for a camera

Ah yes, Nix + Gerber. Amazing! (Sorry about the Coxism!)

Ian

[tomato]

I love the size of the dome relative to the scope, if only.

And a long  FL refractor and a PC on the desk, maybe  he/she was a planetary imager...

[tomato]

An extract and image from the IDSA statement on the impact of Starlink on the night sky:

An image of the NGC 5353/4 galaxy group made with a telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, U.S., on the night of Saturday, May 25, 2019. The diagonal lines running across the image are light trails left by the Starlink satellite group as it passed through the telescope’s field of view. Image courtesy of Victoria Girgis (Lowell Observatory).

From my point of view (literally), the question is how many subs will be affected in any given imaging session. Quite a few if/when all 12000 are up there.

 

[wimvb]

5 hours ago, tomato said:

And a long  FL refractor and a PC on the desk, maybe  he/she was a planetary imager...

clearly a solar observer. It's daytime and the dome shutter is open