Secular Brightness Trends of Starlink and OneWeb Satellites
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| author | Mallama, Anthony |
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| contents | Magnitudes recorded from 2021 through 2026 for Starlink VisorSats reveal brightening of 0.6 magnitudes, while those of OneWeb show dimming of 0.4. Both trends are significant at 3 sigma. This study is based on 1.6 million magnitudes recorded by the MMT9 robotic observatory. |
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| spellingShingle | Secular Brightness Trends of Starlink and OneWeb Satellites Mallama, Anthony Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Magnitudes recorded from 2021 through 2026 for Starlink VisorSats reveal brightening of 0.6 magnitudes, while those of OneWeb show dimming of 0.4. Both trends are significant at 3 sigma. This study is based on 1.6 million magnitudes recorded by the MMT9 robotic observatory. |
| title | Secular Brightness Trends of Starlink and OneWeb Satellites |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13145 |