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It's an interesting way to demonstrate the density of the satellites- they're not hiding the number or duration of images, so you can get a fuzzy intuition for how likely you are to catch them in a given image.



Except you're not actually demonstrating the density. That could have been one satellite if you exposed long enough.

It's like taking a picture of the one car every day driving on some empty road and then coadding them and claiming you're demonstrating density of traffic.


what if the research requires long/multiple exposures.


If I understand correctly the satellites would be much dimmer there, but otherwise you'd see the same problem - correct me if I'm wrong.




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