Blue Starlink satellites
Taken by Marko Posavec on August 11, 2024 @
Bilogora, Croatia
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Recently a number of people reported sightings of particularly blue satellites. In the night of August 11, while observing the Perseids, I captured an entire series of them. It was Starlink group G9-1, launched in June. Those are DTC satellites. Apparently the material they're using to reduce brightness also gives the blue color, for which SpaceX said that it's "not unexpected".
The color is visible to the naked eye and these Generation 2 Starlink satellites tend to be brighter anyway.
This is a composite of 12 individual exposures. Satellite trails were 5-15 minutes apart, extracted so they don't get lost in the jungle of airplanes and other satellites. Their positions relative to the stars are accurate. The sky is a basic stack aligned in Sequator.
Photographer's website:
https://nebo.com.hr
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