Saw the long line of Starlink Satellites last night...

I am located in South Central Kansas near Wichita and about 10:00 pm last night (Friday) I saw these abominations. They followed a straight line out of the Northwest for about 2 minutes. As an amateur astronomer (I don't do astro photography for which these things are even worse, leaving streaks in photo images) the Musk alien invasion will definitely affect my observation and enjoyment of the night sky. There are thousands and thousands more to be launched and several other companies are planning similar launches. Great for internet access maybe (likely won't be low cost as touted and not work as well as touted either) but will make billionaires more billions...whoopee. Even with the modifications planned by Musk engineers to reduce reflectivity (doesn't really work well) the swarm of micro satellites will affect us all by compromising research by major earth based astronomical platforms. They were hauntingly pretty to watch, like a chain of pearls across the sky but knowing the increasing negative effects on scientific research, both professional level and amateur level I am fairly well disgusted. Rant over....


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-dark-satellites-are-still-too-bright-for-astronomers

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/spacexs-starlink-satellites-are-about-to-ruin-stargazing-for-everyone