Fig. 8.
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Limiting magnitude for an astrophotography camera with wide-angle lens (red) as a function of the exposure time. Dark current noise is neglected (see text for the camera details). This magnitude is converted into the apparent magnitude of a satellite assuming the angular velocity typical of a Starlink at 30° elevation), using Eq. (7).
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