Fig. 15.
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Average number of trails per exposure (a) and average fraction of the exposure lost (b) as a function of the sun elevation, for representative exposures at elevation > 30° on the instruments listed in Table 3. Twilights are shaded in blue; inaccessible solar elevations are shaded in grey for the equinoxes and solstices for Paranal latitude (
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