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“Although this image serves as an illustration of the impact of reflections from satellite constellations, please note that the density of these satellites is significantly higher in the days after launch (as seen here) and also that the satellites will diminish in brightness as they reach their final orbital altitude.”



I've never seen a caption on a photo be so blatantly pleading with internet commenters to not get angry.


Also, not mentioned, satellite trails are only an issue just around twilight and only near the horizons, both of which are bad seeing conditions for telescopes.


"Just" being several hours, cutting shorter the finite amount of dark time available.


Several hours at increasingly lower inclinations as satellites in LEO reflecting sunlight are low in the sky. Telescopes generally don’t point in that direction because of the amount of atmosphere makes for bad seeing.




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