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The Low Earth Orbit Satellite Population and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation

  • Authors: Jonathan C. McDowell

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 892 L36.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Starlink satellites visible from Cerro Tololo (30S) in summer vs. time of night. Number above the horizon (left); number above 30° elevation (right). At this latitude, the naked-eye layers A and C are in shadow except at twilight. At midnight 20 satellites are illuminated at high elevation corresponding to 2 × 10−3 per square degree.

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