11-06, 16:00–17:20 (US/Arizona), BoFs
It’s a star, it’s a galaxy, it’s a... satellite streak?! Join colleagues and leaders of the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (CPS) SatHub for an engaging session about new software challenges in an era of thousands of commercial low-Earth orbit satellites. Come prepared to share and learn how the community is approaching this issue across the electromagnetic spectrum, what software tools already exist, and what the missing pieces are.
Meredith Rawls is a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She writes software and data pipelines to handle terabytes of nightly images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will produce the highest resolution movie of the night sky ever made. Her background is in stellar astrophysics, and she earned her PhD from New Mexico State University. Lately she studies the plethora of newly-launched commercial satellites in the hopes observers worldwide don't lose the sky, and she co-chairs SatHub at the new International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (IAU CPS).