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To: plsvn
They don't. It's sunlight reflecting off the satellites under certain conditions.

Why are all of them blinking on and off exactly the same?

9 posted on 12/30/2025 7:17:32 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

They’re a bunch of individual moving points in a 20 second time exposure, so they look like lines.


11 posted on 12/30/2025 9:08:04 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Why are all of them blinking on and off exactly the same?

That's a very good question! Using today's digital cameras it's often not possible to take long time exposures (keeping the shutter open for long periods of time (minutes) like in the old days using film cameras). Nowadays when taking sky photos with digital cameras it's common to take multiple exposures many seconds long and then stacking them all together to make a single photo. Wish I had a way to post photos I could post some I've taken this way of the Hubble Space Telescope and other satellites.

Anyway, satellites don't don't blink regularly like this unless they're tumbling, and operational Starlink satellites don't tumble.

12 posted on 12/31/2025 4:44:16 AM PST by plsvn
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