Photographer Spends 45 Hours Exposing 1,400 Satellites Clogging the Night Sky

Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies

Brendan Larsen left his camera aimed at Mt Taranaki for two hours, capturing 578 eight-second exposures. He then manually layered every frame in Photoshop, erasing stars to reveal roughly 14,450 satellite trails from about 1,400 individual satellites — a 45-hour edit that is not AI. Fellow photographer Vincent Laforet calls it an important photograph, and asks who gave anyone permission to do this.