Starlink V1.5 Shark-Fin Configuration Telescope Shot
Taken by Ralf Vandebergh on February 6, 2025 @
The Netherlands
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This is an improved processing that especially shows a well-defined view of one of the edges of the satellite bus in front of the solar array! This is a very delicate observation, remember this is no space station but something of a very small size.
Imaging aperture: 0.25m / fully manually tracking on visual sight.
Starlink brightness mitigation configurations are well-optimized so that only the satellite bus can be seen from the ground and the solar array(s) are invisible. In some rare occasions, more then just the Starlink satellite bus in operational orbit can be seen from the ground. Here we see a part of the (actually very faint) solar array sticking out from the flat plate V1 bus (Starlink-3933) to the Zenith (Shark-Fin-Configuration). The viewing angle is as that we see the bus from below and a part of the array is visible on top in this ground-based image. As the visible part of the solar array is very faint, and the exposure is adjusted to that, a large part of the brighter bus is overexposed. But also still a part of the bus shows some detail. The (rarely) visible part of the array is so faint that it doesn't further play any significant role in the total brightness of the satellite.
Photographer's website:
https://x.com/ralfvandebergh2 (new)
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