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Announcement: New Applications
We are excited to announce the launch of our new applications! We're opening up early access to our new applications for searching, downloading, and submitting photometric observations. You can now access these applications through these links:
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Mr. Musk wants to colonize Mars, but he has a problem: SpaceX can't make enough money on its own to cover the cost. The purpose of the Starlink Internet system is to bring in the cash needed for his Martian venture.
I think so... sadly.
Mr. Musk wants to colonize Mars, but he has a problem: SpaceX can't make enough money on its own to cover the cost. The purpose of the Starlink Internet system is to bring in the cash needed for his Martian venture.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/spacex-launch.html
Boycott Tesla...
If LSST can't do it, i guess AAVSO will have to.
Maybe it will be MAVSO.
If I coud just get my 8" remote scope on Mars . . .
To adapt Benjamin Franklin's famous quotation:
It takes many good people to preserve a good sky, and only one bad one to lose it.
And it's not just optical astronomy, I think the radio astronomers are not happy either.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205172-astronomy-group-calls-for-…
https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann19035/
Is AAVSO interested in putting out a statement?