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by eldenring 132 days ago
The ideal shape would be a shaded, flat panel perpendicular to the sun right?
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That should be better than a sphere. Though I imagine there could be some fancier 3D geometry designs.

Even for a simple sphere, if we give it different surface roughnesses on the sun-facing side and the "night" side, it can have dramatically different emissivity.