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For years, on summer evenings, my husband and our daughter’s favourite game was to lie down on the terrace of our house (reasonably sheltered from the village lights in a quiet town in the Ligurian hinterland) and hunt for satellites. When night falls and it’s already dark on Earth, the satellites, orbiting at a height of a few hundred kilometres, are still illuminated by the Sun, and the light they reflect makes them (more or less) easy to spot.
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Caraveo, P. (2021). An Increasingly Crowded Sky. In: Saving the Starry Night. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85064-7_10
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