Below are movies of the brightness of future satellite megaconstellations, made from the simulations in Lawler, Boley, & Rein (in press, The Astrophysical Journal).


The code to make these simulations is open-source and publicly available in this github repository, and a simple webapp is available here.


Latitude 50 degrees North (southern Canada/mid-Europe/Russia)

Summer Solstice
Equinox


Latitude 44 degrees North (southern Ontario/mid-Europe/Russia)

Summer Solstice
Equinox


Latitude 20 degrees North (Hawaii, where lots of research telescopes are located)

Summer Solstice
Equinox