Why would you want to be on the night side? So that the incredible heat of you spacecraft is even more obvious in the shadow of the planet?
A bunch of us (traveller rpg geeks who happened to be astonmers) did the math decades ago. A small spacecraft would be near "naked eye" magnitude in the IR at the distance of earth to moon. (a traveller scout ship for traveller geeks). That's just waste heat from keeping the inside a shirtsleeves environment, computers, life support, etc.
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