In all SciFi movie/series spacecraft are always visible from an outside perspective, no matter how far away from any given star. I know this is scifi but.......
Hypothetically.......
lets just say I'm approaching Pluto in my starship ( lets say Voyager from StarTrek). Could I see another object - lets say Enterprise - visually?
Would the light from the Star be enough to illuminate Enterprise for me to look out of the mess hall on Voyager and see Enterprise clearly? ( given that the ships are in close proximity and the angle of the dangle is so that the star is illuminating the most part of Enterprise)
And then half way to Proxima Centauri, we meet up with an other starship.
Would we be able to see each other visually? ( no sensors etc involved)
This has been bugging me ever since space battles in movies and tv shows include noise .........
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Cheers
Bartman