http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00609
On large telescopes trails of MegaConstellation’s satellites will appears significantly defocused because of their relatively short distance. Because of such effect their apparent surface brightness will be, under a range of conditions, almost constant during their apparent sweeping on the focal plane of such large facilities. A few simple relationships are worked out and discussed to show the apparent brightness of such trails, in order to evaluate their impact on operations of large optical ground based facilities. Such considerations could be used as well to propose regulatory limits in order to make such effects small enough.
R. Ragazzoni
Thu, 2 Jul 20
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Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures
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