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byteseller wrote:
Amazing photos! Especially like the airglow event and fireball those are spectacular.
Now, the one of the satellites whose names shall-not-be-spoken.... boooooo!!!
Glad you enjoyed most of them. 
SpaceX may have effectively been first to market, but either way large constellations of LEO satellites was going to happen; Falcon 9's success simply hastened the first barrage. Both OneWeb and Amazon are poised to add a significant number of additional satellites (other countries have plans, as well), and arguably with less tech/operational guidance to try and limit their brightness.
In uncovering and deciphering (last spring) the previously unknown (or perhaps little-noticed is more accurate?) highest-latitude flaring phenomenon captured in that image, I have actually found it quite interesting to subsequently photograph these 'shells' of satellites. The graphic 'presentation' of the different orbital shells (as captured in–and composited from–time lapse sequences) presents the viewer with a rather unique opportunity to visualize the three-dimensional nature of LEO satellites and their altitudes, the 'grid-like' appearance of which describes a literal (geometric) layer around the earth, beyond the stratosphere, that we can now observe.
As a photographer focused on night imagery I'd argue that city lights provide a far more significant impediment to casual viewing of the night sky than do satellites, though I do understand the challenge to professional astronomers that these new constellations represent. In recently capturing a time-lapse of a section of the geosynchronous satellite belt, it illustrated to me how busy even the farther reaches of earth orbit are and have been, as many of these now decommissioned communications satellites have been there for many decades, and will continue to be there for hundreds to thousands of years.
The times, they are a-changin'...
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