<story><title>Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwuphysics</author><text>Please don&amp;#x27;t editorialize the title. The title is&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Starlink Generation 2 Mini Satellites: Photometric Characterization&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a professional astronomer and I don&amp;#x27;t know what the &amp;quot;brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers&amp;quot; is. I do know that a 7th magnitude source will likely saturate most large research telescopes, rendering a good chunk of that data useless.</text></comment>
<story><title>Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beardyw</author><text>Can someone explain to me how the title as it appears here relates to the linked paper.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Therefore, the Mini satellites are fainter than Gen 1 Starlink satellites despite their
larger sizes.
&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;OK, but no mention of &amp;quot;the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers&amp;quot; anywhere. If there is a missing source please can we see it?</text></comment>