{"id":4246,"date":"2019-11-25T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:21:36","slug":"this-is-not-cool-astronomers-despair-as-spacex-starlink-train-ruins-observation-of-nearby-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=4246","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Not Cool!\u2019 &#8211; Astronomers Despair As SpaceX Starlink Train Ruins Observation Of Nearby Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jonathanocallaghan\/2019\/11\/18\/this-is-not-coolastronomers-despair-as-spacex-starlink-train-ruins-observation-of-nearby-galaxies\/amp\/\">\u2018This Is Not Cool!\u2019 &#8211; Astronomers Despair As SpaceX Starlink Train Ruins Observation Of Nearby Galaxies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>TL:DR: affected but not ruined.\u00a0 Possibly fixable in software.\u00a0 And the affected observations were within 90ish minutes of when telescoping would have been stopped due to rising sun.\u00a0 So maybe asrronomy just loses 3 hours of observation time a night (satellites shine by reflected sunlight, which can only occur ~90 mins after\/before sunset\/sunrise)?\u00a0 But still will have occulations even during dark time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: \u2018This Is Not Cool!\u2019 &#8211; Astronomers Despair As SpaceX Starlink Train&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,97,74,201],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-astronomy","tag-elon-musk","tag-space","tag-starlink-et-al"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}