Bright lights in the sky over Seattle... again! (Starlink)
Channel: James Davenport
Date: 05/05/2021

Last night (May the 4th, 2021) we saw strange, bright lights in the sky over Seattle and Portland ... again! It due to a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch earlier in the day from Florida.

About a month ago folks all over the Pacific Northwest saw dramatic lights from a Falcon 9 rocket burning up in the atmosphere. This time was much calmer, yet still surreal. It was a "Starlink Train" going by, a string of 60 new satellites in a row reflecting sunlight as they went overhead.

These events are very neat - but they pose an environmental risk as well...

TESS Launch Vlog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeyjIvOj5T8

Impact of Satellite Constellations:
https://www.lsst.org/content/lsst-statement-regarding-increased-deployment-satellite-constellations

Worries about Starlink photobombing LSST/Vera Rubin Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12417 

Me chatting w/ KING5 briefly last night:
https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/lights-streaking-across-night-sky-in-western-washington-again/281-a4227a83-20ca-484d-8e0d-da48b4fa8f97

MUSIC:
David Miner
https://twitter.com/DavidMinerTV​

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Nikon 70-300mm AF-P VR

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