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The most common algorithm to manage airplanes, satellites, hot pixels, and other undesired photons in astrophotos is a process called Kappa-Sigma Clipping. It essentially rejects pixel values from subframes in your image stack that fall outside a user-inputted deviation from the mean.

In other words, the process works wonderfully to get rid of the starlink-emitted photons, but you lose that subframe's signal, lowering your signal to noise ratio. Not the end of the world. But inconvenient and sometimes costly to professional astronomers.




Yeah, but what % of subframes (small portions of large images) are ruined by noise caused by moving objects? Way less than 1% I'd imagine. It's just not a big problem. And certainly not worth outlawing new satellite launches over.




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