Satellite trail count simulators
This page links to two webtools based on the analytical simulation method we published in Bassa, Hainaut, Galadi 2021 AA TBS (PDF).
Both of them compute the number of satellite trails that will be detected in an exposure, taking into account the field-of-view of the instrument, the exposure time, and the position of the observatory.
- Sky map simulator: trail counts over the whole sky at a given time.
- Calendar simulator: trail counts for a given astronomical object as a function of time over the whole year.
The simulators have more parameters than those exposed here (for example, to account for spectrographs, or the magnitude that heavily saturates an exposure). They can also convert the number of trails in observation losses (in percent).
Also, please do not access these simulators via script: contact us if you want a large number of simulations. We can either run them for you or give you access to the code.
A slightly different implementation of the algorithms is also available on Cees Bassa's GitHub repository
GitHub repository.
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