#In one day you would see the full cycle (if you can see it)#

So if you stand a little distance from a lamp holding a ball at arms length, then turn around, you will see the phases on the ball. This is the same process, you are turning at the same rate as the ball, just as the planets surface and the moon would be.

Your small not-too reflective moon might not always be visible...but for the sake of a story there is obviously no harm in you ignoring that.

#Inclination and eccentricity# I appreciate Zxyrra's point about the inclination and eccentricity - they would change the moon's appearance if you had anything but a circular orbit angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. However a geostationary orbit is necessarily circular and angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. Due to this the moon will always orbit around the equator of the planet.

What would affect this would be the planet's tilt and eccentricity. If the planet was tilted 90$^{\circ}$ you could instead observe a moon permanently half-lit, half dark top to bottom rather than left to right. This would vary from one extreme to the other depending on how you wish to tilt your planet.

All in all the best way to play about with how this would look involves you, a lamp, a ball and making yourself dizzy

In one day you would see the full cycle (if you can see it)

So if you stand a little distance from a lamp holding a ball at arms length, then turn around, you will see the phases on the ball. This is the same process, you are turning at the same rate as the ball, just as the planets surface and the moon would be.

Your small not-too reflective moon might not always be visible...but for the sake of a story there is obviously no harm in you ignoring that.

Inclination and eccentricity

I appreciate Zxyrra's point about the inclination and eccentricity - they would change the moon's appearance if you had anything but a circular orbit angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. However a geostationary orbit is necessarily circular and angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. Due to this the moon will always orbit around the equator of the planet.

What would affect this would be the planet's tilt and eccentricity. If the planet was tilted 90$^{\circ}$ you could instead observe a moon permanently half-lit, half dark top to bottom rather than left to right. This would vary from one extreme to the other depending on how you wish to tilt your planet.

All in all the best way to play about with how this would look involves you, a lamp, a ball and making yourself dizzy

#In one day you would see the full cycle (if you can see it)#

So if you stand a little distance from a lamp holding a ball at arms length, then turn around, you will see the phases on the ball. This is the same process, you are turning at the same rate as the ball, just as the planets surface and the moon would be.

Your small not-too reflective moon might not always be visible...but for the sake of a story there is obviously no harm in you ignoring that.

#Inclination and eccentricity# I appreciate Zxyrra's point about the inclination and eccentricity - they would change the moon's appearance if you had anything but a circular orbit angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. However a geostationary orbit is necessarily circular and angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. Due to this the moon will always orbit around the equator of the planet.

What would effect this would be the planet's tilt and eccentricity. If the planet was tilted 90$^{0}$ you could instead observe a moon permanently half-lit, half dark top to bottom rather than left to right. This would vary from one extreme to the other depending on how you wish to tilt your planet.

All in all the best way to play about with how this would look involves you, a lamp, a ball and making yourself dizzy

#In one day you would see the full cycle (if you can see it)#

So if you stand a little distance from a lamp holding a ball at arms length, then turn around, you will see the phases on the ball. This is the same process, you are turning at the same rate as the ball, just as the planets surface and the moon would be.

Your small not-too reflective moon might not always be visible...but for the sake of a story there is obviously no harm in you ignoring that.

#Inclination and eccentricity# I appreciate Zxyrra's point about the inclination and eccentricity - they would change the moon's appearance if you had anything but a circular orbit angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. However a geostationary orbit is necessarily circular and angled normal to the planet's rotational axis. Due to this the moon will always orbit around the equator of the planet.

What would affect this would be the planet's tilt and eccentricity. If the planet was tilted 90$^{\circ}$ you could instead observe a moon permanently half-lit, half dark top to bottom rather than left to right. This would vary from one extreme to the other depending on how you wish to tilt your planet.

All in all the best way to play about with how this would look involves you, a lamp, a ball and making yourself dizzy