Watch this satellite obliterate the Kuiper Belt object moving through this set of images.
The dumb satellite is so bright that our auto-detect software threw out the whole stack, because it destroyed the average brightness.
It pisses me off to no end that my taxpayer-funded telescope time is now less and less effective because of one for-profit private company.
(P.S. software dudes: please don't try to mansplain workarounds, believe me, a LOT of astronomers are working hard on this)
Prof. Sam Lawler /
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2024-03-04 19:24:56
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