A Sky Brightness Model for the Starlink 'Visorsat' Spacecraft
A model of the brightness of the visorsat Starlink spacecraft is presented based on published information on the engineering design and from analysis of 131 observations of individual visorsats in late 2020. Comments are offered on the implications of this model on the visibility of visorsat spacecr...
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Zusammenfassung: | A model of the brightness of the visorsat Starlink spacecraft is presented
based on published information on the engineering design and from analysis of
131 observations of individual visorsats in late 2020. Comments are offered on
the implications of this model on the visibility of visorsat spacecraft across
the sky. This is an updated and expanded version of analysis published in
Research Notes of the AAS (2020). An additional section has been added in this
version to consider observations made in June 2021 which indicate brighter
visorsat magnitudes. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2107.06026 |