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This evening I got my first view of #DarkSat, the @SpaceX #Starlink satellite with a special coating to make it less bright in the night sky. The combined image below shows that #DarkSat is not much fainter than some of the other #Starlink satellites... What is going on here? 1/n 
This image shows the maximum pixel value of 18 individual exposures of 10 seconds each, taken at 1 minute intervals. Each individual image exposure contains a #Starlink satellite; they just happened to be separated in time by roughly a minute. Predicted positions are overlaid.
The exposures were taken between 17:28:25UTC to 17:45:25UTC from the Netherlands. #Starlink satellite 44928 was first to appear, and each next satellite was slightly higher in elevation as the orbital plane rose in the sky with time. Elevation runs vertically in this image.
