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by jdashg 2324 days ago
Via Wikipedia: "The Moon has an exceptionally low albedo, giving it a reflectance that is slightly brighter than that of worn asphalt." Yet, the sun is /so bright/ that even at 380,000km we see moon-shadows at night on earth.

To a first approximation, small LEO satellites are roughly the same angular size as Venus at its average distance to us.