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Someone posted here the other day that he lived in an area ranking high on the:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale

Must be quite something.

I live in a civilized country but 45 minutes from the closest highway and far from any city, so I get to enjoy beautiful night skies. But satellites are already polluting it : (

Also, dumb question but: can't satellites be made to not emit any light and to not reflect it?

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I remember that when the Starlink satellites first went up and people complained they were too visible, Starlink agreed to make future ones less so. I don't know why they didn't do that to begin with, maybe the metal is shiny by default and it's an extra cost to make it matte? Maybe it's about heat, since a matte object will absorb more from light? At any rate we're in dire need of some regulation around satellite visibility before we lose more of our night sky... oh, and flying drone billboards need to be banned before they catch on.

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