No, it’s not. This hurts survey telescopes and it’s an orders of magnitude issue.
A rule of astronomy is that if you can see it with your eyes near a city than it’s really really fucking bright, if you can see it with your eyes in the wilderness after your eyes have adjusted for 10 minutes, than it’s still extremely bright.
Bright, fast-moving things are pretty terrible.
Even if Starlink doesn’t kill astronomy, the next 4 companies with similar deployment will definitely exclude types of sciences and ruin billions of dollars of investments in new observatories.
A rule of astronomy is that if you can see it with your eyes near a city than it’s really really fucking bright, if you can see it with your eyes in the wilderness after your eyes have adjusted for 10 minutes, than it’s still extremely bright.
Bright, fast-moving things are pretty terrible.
Even if Starlink doesn’t kill astronomy, the next 4 companies with similar deployment will definitely exclude types of sciences and ruin billions of dollars of investments in new observatories.