Satellite Train Removal Question / Problem

I have found PixInsight's WBPP to not always deal well with trails, it's shoddy a lot of times to be honest even with good dithering, and I need to fix them later in the processing workflow.

I don't know what your processing workflow looks like, but a simple application of the Remove Tool in Photoshop should fix this just fine: just create a new empty layer on top of your base layer that has the image with the trails (you will want to export 16-bit non-linear tiffs), click the remove tool, check "sample all layers", uncheck the "remove after each stroke", click at the start of the trail, then hold down Shift and click again at the end of the other trail, and you should see a brush line overlapping the trail, and then click the apply button. This flow makes it non-destructive and you can choose to either keep the portions or the entirety of the "remove layer".

Welcome to the celestial equator.      Geosync satellites will be the bane of your time here.      While I have no great suggestions,  clone stamp or photoshop healing brush is your friend.

You could also attempt to manually reject them and restack a separate image, blend with photoshop in the end.  Chances are you will be close to rejecting everything though.  Your rejection algos are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing.    You'll just need to get creative here.

Brian Puhl:
Welcome to the celestial equator.      Geosync satellites will be the bane of your time here.      While I have no great suggestions,  clone stamp or photoshop healing brush is your friend.

You could also attempt to manually reject them and restack a separate image, blend with photoshop in the end.  Chances are you will be close to rejecting everything though.  Your rejection algos are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing.    You'll just need to get creative here.

Forgive the noob question. Judging by stellarium, the sky is fixed in regards to the celestial equator. So any time of year from my location at least, the Witch Head and Orion for that matter are very close the to the celestial equator. Meaning I can never shoot them without the train of satellites?

I think I got it... Forgive the WBPP, I am trying to duplicate my ImageIntegration settings. But if you look at the integration2 starless image you can see the trail is basically gone. I switched back to GESD (ESD) and upped my ESD Outliers to 1.00 and ESD Significance to 1.00 as well... And in Lare-Scale Pixel Rejection I turned on High and put both factors at 2.

Man i hope someone figures this out. I don’t want to do all the steps manually, and I also find I have to cull images with trails because I can’t get WBPP to remove them. Even faint trails get stacked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So I can get the trail out but when I drizzle in DrizzleIntegration I lose a ton of contrast and detail in the Witch Head dust compared to the WBPP drizzle integration with the trail. Any idea why this might be?