Number of illuminated satellites above the horizon (top panel) and above 30° elevation, as a function of the local solar time, for Paranal (latitude ). The figure accounts for all the satellites from Table 1. Left is for the summer solstice () and right for the winter solstice (). The twilights are indicated with blue shading. The black line marks the total number of satellites above the elevation considered, the blue line those that are illuminated and the orange and red lines those brighter than magnitude 6 and 5, respectively, using the photometric model described in Sect. 2.2. This shows that during the summer months, a few hundred satellites would remain illuminated thorough the whole night, including a few tens above 30° elevation.