Took a 30 second exposure of the Milky Way and got satellite streaks ruining half my frames

I went out to a dark spot near my town last night to shoot the Milky Way core. Set up my intervalometer for 20 shots at 30 seconds each, ISO 3200, f/2.8. When I got home and stacked them in Sequator, like 12 of the frames had bright white streaks from Starlink satellites cutting right through the data. I learned you gotta check the satellite tracker apps before planning a long imaging session now. Any of you guys had to toss half your data because of these strings of lights?

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rodriguez.felix4d ago

Sequator actually does better with satellite streaks if you use the median stacking mode, have you tried that? It filters out those moving lights pretty well compared to the default average setting.

jake6383d ago

Heard a buddy tried median stacking and it still picked up a satellite train like it was nothing.