Timeline for How bright is night on a moon orbiting a gas giant?
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 23:03 | vote | accept | B. T. Newberg | ||
| Mar 28, 2021 at 23:03 | vote | accept | B. T. Newberg | ||
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 15:36 | vote | accept | B. T. Newberg | ||
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 15:28 | vote | accept | B. T. Newberg | ||
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 2:40 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 20:28 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | ...aaaand thinking about it even more, it isn't possible to have a stable orbit around a saturn-sized gas giant orbiting a sun-like star that gives you a viewpoint where saturn is 7 times the apparent area of the moon. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 17:57 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | Also, now I come to look at it, it might be kinda small in either case. Saturn as seen from Titan has about 10 times the angular diameter, and so about 100 times the area. Jupiter as seen from Callisto is ~9 times the angular diameter of the moon. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 16:52 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | "7 times brighter" is ill-defined. 7 times the area? 7 times the radius? There's a big difference! | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 16:33 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 16:22 | history | asked | B. T. Newberg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |