A Glimpse of the Coming End? (Olaf Fritsche)

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A Glimpse of the Coming End?

Did you hear the story about the homeowner who didn't want to move out and now lives on a traffic island with freeways going by his house left and right?

That's probably what we'll all be facing soon as the fleet of Starlink satellites continues to expand.

I got a foretaste when I took a picture of M51 on May 23, 2021. The filter wheel had just changed from HII to Luminance when I saw this sub on the display. The first shock subsided when the next sub did not show a thick line. Obviously the Starlink satellites had then already left the image section behind. Fortunately, it was only a short visit.

But there is a saying in German that shows what awaits us astrophotographers in the future: Satellites will increasingly "uns einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen" ("ruin a plan").

Kennt ihr die Geschichte von dem Hausbesitzer, der nicht ausziehen wollte und nun auf einer Verkehrsinsel wohnt mit Autobahnen, die links und rechts an seinem Haus vorbei führen?

Das wird uns allen vermutlich auch bald blühen, wenn die Flotte der Starlink-Satelliten weiter ausgebaut wird.

Einen Vorgeschmack bekam ich bei der Aufnahme von M51 am 23. Mai 2021. Das Filterrad hatte gerade von HII auf Luminanz gewechselt, als ich auf dem Display dieses Sub sah. Der erste Schreck legte sich, als das nächste Sub keinen dicken Strich aufwies. Offenbar hatten die Starlink-Satelliten dann schon den Bildausschnitt hinter sich gelassen. Zum Glück war es nur ein kurzer Besuch.

Aber es gibt eine Redewendung im Deutschen, die zeigt, was uns Astrofotografen in Zukunft erwartet: Die Satelliten werden uns immer öfter "einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen."

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