Welcome to the Lumos documentation

Lumos is a Python library for calculating the optical brightness of artificial satellites.

More specifically, Lumos allows the user to:

• Fit analytic BRDFs (bidirectional reflectance distribution functions) to measured data.

• Create brightness models of satellites.

• Calculate satellite optical brightness for observers on the ground.

Possible applications include:

• Allowing optical brightness to be used as a design constraint by satellite operators.

• Lets astronomers plan observations based on when and where in the sky satellites are brightest.