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by ncmncm 1423 days ago
How does the telescope know it is "obscured" by something local, and not legitimately fluctuating?
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a leo telescope doesn't look anything like a star (mainly because it's moving too fast). the way you deal with this is by not taking hour long exposures, and instead take thousands of second long exposures. then you can composite them all together, cropping out the bits that look like satellites from each frame. it's a little annoying, but pretty easy to automate.