Recent months have seen space fans revel in a wealth of spectacular astrophotography depicting the evolution of Comet Lemmon's glowing coma and twisting tail as it journeyed through a Northern Hemisphere night sky swarming with satellites.

While the vast majority of photographers opted to post sanitized views of Comet Lemmon, others intentionally compiled their images to reveal the incredible number of satellites that crossed the night sky over the course of multiple exposures.

In each instance, Comet Lemmon is shown surrounded by a crazed network of thin, web-like lines, each of which represents the path of an orbiting satellite over the course of a short camera exposure.

"Photographically, if someone is attempting to take a single image of a target and needs the image to be 'clean' —

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