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		petschge on July 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Astronomers push for global debate on giant satell... I have heard astronomers estimating it at up to 30% of the observing time for existing optical telescopes. Note that this is the instrument class that has t to 20 times as many proposals as they can actually observe.

Retric on July 20, 2021 [–]

Yep, and others say it’s less than 1%. Neither of them are lying, but their talking about different kinds of observations.

My assumption is scheduling should solve most of these issues in terms of large instruments.

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