How Vera C. Rubin telescope may halve interference from satellites

A telescope on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory may lower satellite tv for pc interference in its pictures by half by sacrificing about 10 per cent of the time spent observing the night time sky

By Jeremy Hsu

A telescope on the $473 million Vera C. Rubin Observatory, underneath building in Chile, may lower the visible interference from satellites in its pictures by half – however at the price of sacrificing about 10 per cent of the time spent observing the night time sky. That will turn into obligatory as rising swarms of business satellites fill the night time sky and outshine stars, planets and different objects of curiosity.

The US-funded observatory will home a telescope that appears for near-Earth asteroids and distant …