Recent content by Hainted

No just a regular cycle of the moon from full to dark to full again. Would it go completely dark?

But would it affect the new moon? In other words would it truly go dark or would a new "moon" just be dark in the middle with a ring of light on the outside where the planet's shadow doesn't reach?

So the planet doing the eclipse gets to see a shadow fall across, but not cover the planet completely, while the eclipsed planet sees a dark disk surrounded by light?(Early morning and overtime so brain's not fully engaged.)

Synchronized as in Same rotation period (I.E. 24 hour day) or synchronized as in one orbit(48 days) equals one day/night period?

Telescopes,Hadn't thought of that! or the deforestation. I had been thinking more on how societies would have changed. "Where do the Gods live? There!"

Would it be impractical/impossible for one to be inclined above the plane, and one below? Just trying to get a visual in my head.

"As long as there is no full tidal locking, tidal effects will manifest. At twice the distance and about 80 times the mass of the Moon, the tidal acceleration would be about 10 times higher than we get." Trying to visualize. Are you saying the waves would be massive, and fast, or that high...

I'm working on a SF story that takes place on Binary Planets orbiting a single star. I've worked out their mean distance from each other (702,904.853 km) from their star (167,323,260 km or 1.1 AU) and their orbits around the common barycenter(48 days), and the parent star(432 days). For...

Thanks, I'm not doing Hard SF, but I want to avoid making a complete fool of myself scientifically.

Working on a story idea that involves binary worlds. To keep the math simple I'm assuming the planets to be Earth sized, and mass, orbiting a star identical to the sun. I managed to find someone to help with the first equations and discovered that based on the time it takes them to orbit each...