You only see satellites when the sun has recently set, when a few hundred kilometers up is still in sunlight. The rest of the night you don’t see satellites at all.

It’s not great that there are satellites visible for an hour or so after sunset, but it’s not like you’ll never see the night sky again.

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seatac76 2 days ago | parent [-]

You do get to see them as white fast moving dots at night though. It doesn’t bother be personally but I can see people having issues with that.

	▲	ninkendo 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You only see them if they’re high up enough to be in sunlight. (This is true no matter what: satellites don’t emit their own significant light, they’re reflecting the sun’s.) The later it gets, the higher the satellite would have to be to still be in the sun. The vast, vast majority of them are low enough that this is not significantly long after sunset. The rest are so high up that you won’t really see them anyway (and don’t move significantly fast across the sky, because orbit is slower the higher you go.) You essentially don’t see satellites at all in the middle of the night.