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A few particularly large and particularly sensitive telescopes will have problems not easily resolvable by software, the vast majority of telescopes will not.


That actually sounds worse. Large expensive telescopes will have issues, but amateur astronomers will say there isn't any issue because the pictures they take with their smaller telescopes are cleaned up with software.


Arguably so (I'm going to generally stay out of value judgments), but do note that it's not all large expensive telescopes, it depends on the telescope.


... which has always been true.

Several observatories were built near cities. As light pollution from terrestrial sources have increased, they've found their expensive optical telescopes become toys, and have moved their scientific collection utility over to radio.


Yes, these are massively important to professional astronomy and our understanding of the universe.


Such concerns should probably be balanced against the potential the launch capacity of Starlink represents.

I'm looking forward to someone launching a satellite telescope network with the collection radius of an Earth orbit.




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