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Streaks at all of my Lights

Acquisition Deep Sky M42 Artifacts Messier Objects
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Omiros Angelidis avatar
Omiros Angelidis avatar
I need your support as it seems that I am loosing it Today I started my night on Orion Nebula! 

I took about 10 lights (180 sec) and all of them have the same streaks but in various positions but with the same angle of attack. They don’t not seem to be starlink or similar as the lines are not covering the full frame and those are pretty quick.

Any ideas?? 

dkamen avatar
dkamen avatar
Satellites. Well known in Orion.
Yungshih Lee avatar
Yungshih Lee avatar
Those are satellites. Take more light frames and the rejection algorithm will take care of them during stacking.
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Richard Mak avatar
Richard Mak avatar
I had the same, two nights, both full of streaks. It even came through after stacking. Very annoying…..
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George Hatfield avatar
George Hatfield avatar
Anything that does not come out with stacking can usually be removed with Photoshop using the Remove Tool or Content aware fill.  

George
Monty Chandler avatar
Monty Chandler avatar
rejection algorithm in your integration software should clean these up.  Any airplanes you need to remove the sub.  But these little satellites will be rejected in most rejection schemes.  Very common when pointing south or north.  Cheers
Dale Penkala avatar
Dale Penkala avatar
Agreed with everything above theses are satellite trails and processing with a rejection algorithm 9 times out of 10 will remove them.
StarNick avatar
StarNick avatar
if you have pixinsight try the script, "skill", found here to remove the trails: https://www.skypixels.at/pixinsight_scripts.html
Omiros Angelidis avatar
Omiros Angelidis avatar
Thank You all! My inexperience was evident as I rushed to post prior processing the frames! After stacking them in PI the hundreds of streaks almost dissappeared. Considering that I am a noob in DSO AP I was surprised to see the shear number of sattelites passing through that region of our sky. I will try to reprocess my Orion to remove the streaks totally as per your suggestions above! 
Clear skies to all! - Mine are cloudy for the last 3 weekends smile