The Right to the Stars In this special International Dark Sky Week episode, Jay Shaffer and Mike Lewinski explore the latest lunar discoveries from Artemis 2 and ShadowCam before discussing the urgent need to protect our ancestral night skies from light pollution and emerging orbital threats. Episode Links:
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How Many Starlink Satellites are Too Many?
In today’s Astro Academy segment, we will be discussing Starlink satellites with my friend, sometimes collaborator, Dark Sky Advocate, Network Engineer, and Astro-photographer, Mike Lewinski. Mike a member of Crestone Colorado’s Dark Sky Committee, and has been a presenter at Crestone’s Dark Sky Festival, and he is a night sky photographer and Time-lapse creator […]
Read MoreStarlink Satellite Mania
The May 26 pass of Space X’s Starlink satellite train was super spectacular especially through binoculars. It even sparked thousands of UFO reports. I thought I had missed capturing it on my all-sky camera until I realized that the fierce winds of late had rotated the camera 90 degrees. Once I figured that out , […]
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