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If I were able to stand next to Voyager I where it is now in interstellar space, would I be able to see it?

I was wondering if there would be enough light (photons) out there to bounce off the spacecraft and hit our retina or if it would appear to be a silhouette against a starry sky? Or dimly lit.

I got to thinking about this after watching Star Trek recently and wondering if there was enough light in deep space to make the ships look so shiny.
gpt
You can easily estimate how well is voyeger 1 illuminated. Direct sunlight is about 50,000 lux. Illuminance falls with distace squared. Voyeger is 125 AU far. So illuminance is roughly 50,000/125**2 = 3.2 lux. So Voyager is better lit than open terain in the light of the full moon, which is about 0.5 lux. Even in the deep interstellar space lets say 1 ly away Voyager would be still visible, thou just barely.