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This is pretty much a cherry picked worst case scenario. The comet is only visible right above the horizon after sunset for a brief period.

Starlink satellites are also only visible low on the horizon, and only for brief periods after sunset and before sunrise, because their low orbits keep them in the Earths shadow the rest of the night.




Yeah its basically optimized to look bad. The satellites are relatively close to each other. In normal operation, there's no reason to have 30 different satellites in view. I suspect these satellites were very recently launched, so they are not in the normal sun-tracking orientation.

Also, the comet is a wide object. A wide image is just more likely to have any satellite in view.




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