Comment by a-wu

I have no experience in astronomy or satellites, but here's my naive idea. The article suggested erasing trails from the images using software. If SpaceX made an open API that detailed the precise location of every satellite at every point in time, could the imaging software use this to know that at this location in the image there is definitively a satellite that can be erased? I'm not sure what kind of sensors these telescopes use, and it probably wouldn't solve the issue of the bright spot messing up the exposure, but at least you could get rid of the trails?