So let's say you have a Stardestroyer the other side of the planet, when you emerge from hyperspace do you have a chance to detect it with your basic YT1300 ? guess not. But if you stay stationary and the SD is orbiting, at what distance would you detect it ? Your basic stock YT1300 has short range sensor.

16 hours ago, SEApocalypse said:

You mean like something which is in in geostationary orbit at 35,000km above ground?

Example: A star destroyer is 1.6km long, that appears to be 0.15715 Minutes big on the sky from the ground. When we say a person has 20/20 vision we mean they have the acuity to discern a detail of 1 arc minute. Good luck.

If you cut down the distance to something like medium with something like 50 km range and to something like a TIE/LN with 6m you are still below that 1 arc minute, at 100km and 21m for an x-wings biggest profile you are still below 1 arc minute, so it is possible even to have sil 4 vehicles below visual range when at medium range in space.

So yeah, detecting fighters at close range should be possible, detecting them at short range might sometimes still be possible, larger vessels are easier to spot. But we are talking here about incredible small details to find against a background which makes it incredible hard to spot something. And we are talking potential about the extreme dark shadows of space as ambient light is rather limited even close to planets.

How dare you bring too much real science to Star Wars!