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The Brightness of VisorSat-Design Starlink Satellites

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2021-01-05 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Authors: Anthony Mallama
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Abstract

The mean of 430 visual magnitudes of VisorSats adjusted to a distance of 550-km (the operational altitude) is 5.92 +/-0.04. This is the characteristic brightness of these satellites when observed at zenith. VisorSats average 1.29 magnitudes fainter than the original-design Starlink satellites and, thus, they are 31% as bright.

Keywords

visorsat starlink satellite brightness visual magnitude

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@article{arxiv.2101.00374,
  title  = {The Brightness of VisorSat-Design Starlink Satellites},
  author = {Anthony Mallama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00374},
  year   = {2021}
}

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