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profdant139
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May 30, 2019

"Satellight Pollution" of the Night Sky by SpaceX

Those of us who boondock in search of dark skies will be dismayed to hear that the new satellite internet system will scatter a lot more junk across the field of view. (I am claiming the coinage of th...
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profdant139
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Jun 08, 2019
Just a follow-up on how a time exposure can reveal things we can't see -- if you look carefully at the upper left corner, you should be able to see two meteor tracks. We could not see them at the time -- there was a bright moon. We did not even know they were there until we viewed the shot on the computer. This was about a 20 second exposure -- it was taken in the Boulder Mountains of Idaho, north of Ketchum and south of Stanley:


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