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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 7.

Starlink satellites visible from London (52N) in winter vs. time of night. Number above the horizon (left); number above 3° elevation (right). Vertical lines indicate the times at which the Sun reaches elevations 0°, −6°, −12°, and −18° for the ground observer. The sky should be free of naked-eye satellites in the middle of the night, but there will up to 200 near the horizon during twilight.

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