A Macaron of a Person

If we assume "Ghostlight" is the light from all the stars that are more than 30 lightyears away, such that even if they disappeared in the QR, light that already left them would still be en route to the Sol System Vicinity 30 years later, the facts are these:

There are only about 50 stars WITHIN a 30ly radius that are visible to the unaided human eye (plus the 5 visible planets. 6 i guess if you live on a station and include Earth) that would have disappeared from view by the time of Iron Lung

On a PERFECTLY dark moonless night, with no haze or cloud cover, astronomers estimate about 5000 stars are visible to the unaided human eye

there are actually 10000 stars that are bright enough to be visible to the naked eye but half of them are always hidden bc they're, yknow, on the other side of Earth from you (unless you are a lunar astronaut)

there is always SOME atmospheric interference even in ideal conditions

we live in a world of absolutely BLAZING light pollution

SIMON LUNG IS PROBABLY USED TO SEEING MORE STARS THAN ANYONE READING THIS POST EVER HAS