Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST
J. Anthony Tyson et al 2020 AJ 160 226
New analysis shows that, in the event of 48,000 low-Earth-orbit artificial satellites like those of SpaceX, about 1% of pixels in the Vera Rubin Observatory’s LSST nautical twilight images would need to be masked to prevent trails from damaging the data.