Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
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Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#2Tangential, but everyone can take part in reducing light pollution because it's well suited to local political action: https://darksky.org/what-we-do/advancing-responsible-outdoor...
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#3Tangential, but everyone can take part in reducing light pollution because it's well suited to local political action: https://darksky.org/what-we-do/advancing-responsible-outdoor...
Needs signup to download a form? :/
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#4Why is the wording always so hedged? Anything "could reduce" anything, this equivocates so much that it's useless for understanding anything.
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#5There’s a funny amount of beef around using it in art, you have Anish Kapoor who bought exclusive rights to use Vantablack artistically and man of the people Stuart Semple offering his versions Black 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 getting ever blacker.
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#6True, but I think that could cause issues for astronomers. Instead if seeing small points of light they could see fast moving black spots obscuring stellar objects. In a way looking like eclipses.
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#7As someone in this field, I don't really think this is a good idea. We already have issues maintaining proper thermals without turning the satellite into a giant light-absorbing thermal mass. Painting it black is just asking for additional thermal management budget and mass additions.
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#8True, but I think that could cause issues for astronomers. Instead if seeing small points of light they could see fast moving black spots obscuring stellar objects. In a way looking like eclipses.
Give it few years and they'll get LED colors and we'll see them in "I'm lovin it" formation.
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#9That’s just Vanta advertisement
Re: Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
#10There’s a funny amount of beef around using it in art, you have Anish Kapoor who bought exclusive rights to use Vantablack artistically and man of the people Stuart Semple offering his versions Black 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 getting ever blacker.
"The paint is sold through Semple’s brand, Culture Hustle, and remains explicitly unavailable to Anish Kapoor or his affiliates"