Visorsat Not Seen

From: Anthony Mallama via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 22:42:37 -0400
The Starlink satellite 'Visorsat' (spacetrack #45713) was not seen on 2020
August 6 at 01:21:00 UTC. A star of magnitude 6.7 was clearly observed in
the field of view so the limiting magnitude was around 7. The observation
was made with 15 x 50 binoculars under slightly hazy skies.

The satellite altitude was 482 km and its range was 502 km. According to
the paper linked below, a regular Starlink satellite at that distance would
be approximately magnitude 4.4. So, confirmation of this preliminary result
would imply that Visorsat is, at most, only about 10% as bright as a
regular Starlink satellite.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08422

Has anyone else observed Visorsat?

Tony Mallama
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