Lunch Talk: Harry Krantz (Arizona)
With the creation of new low Earth-orbit satellite constellations astronomers face a new reality, one with as many as 100,000 bright satellites which can ruin astrophotographic images, both scientific and aesthetic. While many are concerned with how to avoid these new satellites, Harry is intentionally observing them to measure their brightness and evaluate current and future brightness reducing mitigation goals. Through an extensive observational survey now totaling more than 16,000 individual observations of nearly 2,800 individual satellites, Harry is characterizing the brightness of satellite constellations and creating all-sky maps which show how bright astronomers can expect satellites to be depending on where in the sky they look.
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Pasadena, CA 91101
United States
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