Searching for exoplanets moving in front of a star, involves measuring the luminosity of a single pixel for ~1% change. Dropping frames ruined by a satellite train isn't going to work. E.g https://www.sciencealert.com/a-bunch-of-potential-tabby-s-st...
You absolutely can drop those frames. Exoplanetary transits are generally in the range of 1 to 4 hours, and hundreds of exposures may be taken in that time. In my undergraduate I studied astronomy and some of my classmates did an exoplanet detection project with a 61" scope and had issues with satellites on a handful of frames. Sure, it sucks to lose 2 minutes worth of data, but it's not even lose to catastrophic when you have the data before and after as well.
Absolute bunk. As numerous people have tried to explain in this thread (along with its frequent predecessors), anything that moves across frames is by definition unimportant when stacking images. It's literally the difference between integration and differentiation.
Satellites move fast. Not only that, but you know exactly where and when they will cross your field of view, and for how long they'll remain within it. If the astronomy community can't muster the rudimentary image processing technology needed to reject satellites and other transient objects, I'm not exactly confident in their ability to finally figure out the whole origin-of-the-Universe thing.
Suppose your job comes and goes with the whims of a grant or funding committee, so every last dollar you spend having to compensate for some other guy's scheme.
Science is not just difficult because the research being done is hard; it's also difficult because everything you're trying to do is being done in spite of the fact 95% of the rest of the world could give a care leas that you're doing, so that last 5% of support you can count has to go a long way.
I can understand the bitterness perfectly, and to be frank, your response is exactly the reason they deserve to be irate.
So why should a goal like truly universal Internet access play second fiddle to astronomical considerations, when the technical solutions required for coexistence are so trivial?
(And I really couldn't care less how many astronomers disagree with the assertion that it's trivial to avoid interference to observations from satellite passes. If I want to know something about astronomy, I'll ask an astronomer. Astronomers, by the same token, should consult digital imaging experts before concluding that the rest of the world is out to wreck their careers with unreasonably-expensive or technically-insurmountable roadblocks. You guys can afford to lose a frame or two now and then in exchange for what Starlink offers the rest of humanity.)
