I've seen a chain of satellites flare with the naked eye once, but as I'm not much into astronomy it was just a curiosity I looked up after the fact. I suspect astronomers don't care for Starlink "photo bombing" their observations.
Quite the opposite:
- A call for scientists to halt the spoiling of the night sky with artificial light and satellites(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01864-z)
- Let there be (natural) light(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01935-9)
- Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide(https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03610-5)
- Satellite swarms are threatening the night sky—and creating a new zone of environmental conflict(https://www.science.org/content/article/satellite-swarms-are...)
- ‘Unsustainable’ how satellite swarms pose a rising threat to astronomy(https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01420-9)