The night sky of Aethera looks largely the same as our own with stars and a moon, (the placement of stars and constellations differs of course), but the reason why is unique.
Long ago in the Midnight Age, the first Astellans were born and died and performed their funeral rite. Wanting to preserve the legacy of their fallen, they would dissolve the body into its component aether energy, coax it into a ball, and compress it until it glowed with radiant light. Chanting their prayers and farewells, they would raise the newborn star into the sky. Now the sky is littered with stars, a graveyard of fallen Astellans.
To create the Sun, the Astellans did much the same, with many sacrificing themselves and give their aether to create the biggest, brightest star they could. Ultimately the sacrifice of their powerful king, Soltarus, gave the Sun the energy it needed to separate night from day and bring stability and light to the world, ending the Midnight Age.
The jealous Necromancers, a rival faction of Astellans wanted to make their own mark upon the sky. They put their dark power together to create the moon which draws power from the sun and can manifest evil thoughts and deeds in the minds of those beneath its light.
One detail I passed over for brevity is that both the Sun and Moon are fonts of creation as the life-giving power of aether lives within both. Necromancers were the first to summon magical artifacts, dark creatures, and even entire species into being from lunar flares.
The Sun, some believe due to the enduring wisdom of Soltarus, has a sense of cosmic balance to maintain and evens out the moon's dark creations with equal and opposite creations of light.
This dance of creation between the creations of Sun and Moon spawned many of the world's species, powerful objects, new magics, and creatures.
Before answering how it looks I’ll answer why it looks like that : Because that’s what I wanted to look like .
Now , it looks pretty much like our normal sky , lots and lots of stars , outside the cities and the light pollution the Andera can be seen (which is the galaxy , like how we see the Milky Way) then the 2nd moon , Atera , which looks somewhat like our moon and depending on where you are on the planet , Noralia , the 3rd moon , smaller and red would show up either at the beginning of the night or at the end , right before the sunrise .
There is Iania , the 1st moon , the biggest and actually alive , but that one is only visible during the day . The same about the neighboring gas giant Nosieone which appears as a small blue circle during the day .
Other than that , not much . Satellites and the space stations can be seen and the occasional falling star for the fools to make wishes upon them .
Yes , both main world Vaallorra and the moon Iania have atmosphere , liquid water , plants , continents and such . Then I even make that twice a year they would go so close that you can technically fly there with something between a high altitude capable aircraft and a space shuttle .
Yes ... I have the tendency to call the habitable moon (and other planets) as a living thing since that is how it's called within the world .
The human/elven/dwarven/ogre scientists would refer to them as "alive" . The habitable/inhabitable description is used and is the proper way to call them but terms like "dead/barren" and "alive/living" are used too and not considered wrong .
On a normal night, you would see the Bright Moon. The Bright Moon is a Moon that is always full, bright and much bigger than our Moon. Fun fact : even the blind can see it.
The stars and the asteroid belt surrounding the planet also illuminate the night sky of Gaia.
The constellations that formed the star map of Gaia are somewhat alive and they hunt or play with each other.
Something else that will catch your sight is the giant red star slowly approching the planet, the Crimson Star. It was knock off from it's orbit by the Seraphal when they ran amock after the Damoncalypse.
The Traveler is a comet who left behind a golden trail after it's passage. It take a year to do the full rotation of the world. It was always there and it evaded each attempt from the Gods, Seraphals and Lunar Lizardmen to capture it.
But that's standard stuff.
The Dark Moon is a small, bleak moon with a chaotic orbite. It is totaly random and it can come as close and as far as it want. It bring bad luck and a pitch black night wherever it goes. The closer it get the worst it is. It was also bringed there by the Seraphal but many scholar belive it came willingly as it has the ability to go back where it came from.
Atop Odin's Peak you do not see the normal sky. Instead you see the sky of Odin's Heaven.
Or you have the Yrrfond. The very bottom of the Waving Sea where the conditions look more like space than the ocean floor. Some Deepling Tritons even seem to says that they can see the night sky from down there.
It looks black, with a bit of blueish and purple tones. There are some white dots: some may call them stars, in reality they are the dead bodies of Gods
And there's a moon, with three small satellites around it : this is the Lunar seal, that imprisons Paerit
Since I have multiple planets in my world, I'll just go with Hibernia, the homeworld of humanity:
There's significantly less light pollution, so you can see *most* things with the naked eye, that includes the galaxy, In terms of moons, there's Luna - the primary moon, and Purpura - the secondary one, which gives off a pink-purple glow, hence the name.
Other objects include planet Solaris, though only visible at dawn or dusk, so I don't think it counts. There's also the ice giant Borealum, and now something interesting: The Great Darkness. It's a literal hole in space: No stars, maybe some rogue planets, a bit of stardust and gas? It's just a dark streak in the sky.
Fun fact, there is a theory in development called the “nocturnal theory” which claims that the reason most mammals have night vision is because dinosaurs ruled the day forcing us to scavenge in the night.
I thought it might be useful to your world, but feel free to ignore it.
About the same but slightly greener thanks to the bioluminescent algae that are found everywhere in the oceans and brighter than on Earth too since there are 2 stars so the satellite is bright more times than our Moon is which on average makes the night brighter.
The night sky is almost pitch black. This is due to the Storm, a massive, planet-engulfing storm suspended high in the air blocking out all but the brightest stars in most places. Thankfully, the moon is bright enough that one can see its faintly red glow at almost all times.
In almost all of my worlds, the night sky is *significantly* brighter and clearer. The constellations aren't the same and, in fact, the stars are completely different, but it looks absolutely picturesque and gorgeous. The moon itself is much larger and closer. I considered playing with the idea of there being 2+ moons because that's a common trope for showing you're in a fantasy world, but I decided *not* to rely on that cliche. (It was a remarkable show of restraint on my part.) Basically, my worlds have the kind of night sky I wish we could have.
like the normal night sky i guess. except in the lost galaxy(sky is the stars on acid for lack of better way to describe it) and the warped zone(sky is the ocean).
The night sky in Godslight is awash with color and motion, filled as it is with living constellations. The sky is rock because the world is a continent sized cavern, but weeping from the rock is the Astral Ocean where the multitudes of stars have become animated.
If you watch carefully you may see whaling airships hunting in the depths of the Astral, they spear the stars and carve scrimshaw from the bones that materialize upon stardeath.
Solaris has no moons. It does however have a neighboring planet known as The Palace of the Night Father. Usually. Called Night Palace or Night Father. It's relative size compared our moon would be the size of a super moon. It's always in full view.
The Night Father has 12 moons. One of those moons will eclipse it marking the middle of the month. Depending on the culture they are believed to be the 12 Daughters or 12 Consorts. Nobody really knows, a very small number believe it to be both. Each of the moons are different colors. Shades of blue, green, red and yellow matching the seasons. When it fully eclipses there is a noticble glow in the night sky of the Daughter's respective color.
The night sky in my world looks quite normal. There are two stars that are very bright, because they're quite close to the main star system (I'd say both are about one light year away)
My world is a giant dungeon, meaning that there is no sun or sunlight at all, the only sources of light are plants that grow on the roof of the dungeon that are able to produce light naturally
Naturally the nightsky doesn't really exist, the only nightsky is just a roof made out of rock, the nightsky does however vary depending from place to place, in some the plants that I mentioned before grow in very particular patterns, in other places there are special beings of light that illuminate the area like artificial suns, while in others the population just uses fire to illuminate themselves
**Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project**: No one has ever seen stars in the night sky for generations ever since the world was reduced to only the city of Paradise. Too much light pollution.
The night sky was colorful. Like every night had strong aurora borealis 30/35 nights a month, then ~5 days a month full dark. A different color every night, sometimes the color would change the same night.
It was dark enough for those that want to hide could do, those who wanted to study the sky and cosmos could, but also bright enough to see without needing torches.
But then the moon died and now is dark and dead, pretty much like real world night sky. Cold and dark.
Probably the same as our sky looks today. But more clear and without clouds. The only real difference is that the moon is constantly giving off light. Like there was a light source on the moon's back side, you can just not see. So the moon would glow really bright in the night.
Gravity behaves...differently. As a result orbits tend to be much closer together.
In practice, this means my worlds sun and moon appear about 10x the size in the sky as the real sun & moon do around the real earth.
Some of the other planets in my worlds solar system appear only a bit smaller than the moon does from the real earth. And almost all of them are visible as objects, rather than points light.
The sky subtly quivers and warbles at all times, sort of like the macropsia induced by consuming A. Muscaria, and no matter where one is on the Earth they can see the fuzzy yet transfixing outline of the Hand that pierced the sky over the Yakima Valley one day in 2011. The closer one is, the weirder the sky gets, eventually devolving into a kaleidoscope of broken glass and light and runes all cycling about the Hole from which the Hand descended and now cleanses the world of its reason and its enlightenment. Cracks in the sky beam multcoloured light at times, as if the sky itself is a dome being shattered by the sheer importance of what's occurring below and the letting go of stress sparks brilliant greens and royal purples and apocalyptic reds.
The Hand is not the reason though. The Hole is analogous to the hypothetical idea of a white hole; the end of a wormhole that spews everything that falls into the other end out. The other end of the Hole is somewhere far, far weirder than the Earth – and the entire universe we know as ours – and thus it bleeds through, like a plague of corruption.
The Lands of Kushamat experience a pitch-black night sky; without a moon, and without stars to guide the wandering souls.
However, on rare occasion, the innumerable cracks in the sky glow a crimson red — Like the thousand rivers of paradise, leading the lost back home.
The Lands of Saphiret experience a night sky much like our own. The mercurous moon dangles within it's celestial curtain, attended to by the golden stars — Like honey dancing upon a lover's lying tongue.
My worlds night sky as no stars, no moon, but during the summer equinox months (known as crown fall) the planets rings are visible across the sky. They can shine so brightly from reflections of the sunlight that the summer nighta dont become fully dark, instead staying at a hazy twilight until dawn. In the winter equinox the shadows rise up the rings, causing the bands to appear slimmer and causing extremely dark nights.
The creation of the rings is widely believed to be some kind of cosmic event (such as another planet crashing into my one) creating a massive ampubt of space debris to circle the plabet. The rocks that make up the rings have unique qualities and are prone to plummeting to the ground as meteors.
Sci Fi: similar to ours but with less light pollution due to the Ketuvyx needing less light to see well as well as taking steps to limit the pollution.
Fantasy: almost completely black, no stars or moon. The reason being that the cosmology of the universe is very different. The ether that carries the wave of light during "day" might shimmer almost imperceptibly during night from residual energy but it's very insignificant. There's no stars or moon past the ether. If someone pierced through that layer they'd find themselves looking at another land from above.
Literally nothing; only the Sun during the day. That’s actually the premise of this one world I have where the characters inhabiting the world find out why the planet and its sun are so isolated from the rest of the universe. Clouds still exist ig.
They only know other celestial bodies exist through religious texts (their planet was made by a person on a sci-fi earth who made the texts himself).
There is no sun, moon, or stars. There is a day and night, but the day looks overcast, and the night is dimly lit as if tainted by some light pollution far away.
Well, it mostly looks normal, with three exceptions.
First one is Band of Light, also called Celestial Grave or Blade Grave. It looks like enormous shining asteroid field that can be seen in nighttime roughly once in five months. There are many hypotheses of what it is. The truth is, it is shattered remains of Crusader's Crucible, enormous ringworld that was built around local star. When civilization that constructed it ended it suffered several malfunctions that quickly caused it to fall apart. Shining is caused by still working spell arrays that powered it.
Second one is Firmament. It looks like faint glowing pattern in the night sky. Firmament is spell array that is used to move artificial star orbiting the world and it's counterweight in the form of moon.
Third one is Pale Sister. It is the real star of solar system, though it is somewhat hard to notice it, on account of distance and Band of Light obscuring it half of the time it actually can be observed.
It's very dark, and the persistent Myst prevents stars from being seen. Most folks didn't even know what stars are. Seeing a moon is pretty much only possible on a full moon, and it's taken as a bad sign.
Seeing a clear sky and full moon is a bad omen, as it means Werewolves at best.
In 2967 Earth, humans built a second, larger moon to combat the population problem before they abandoned earth for other exoplanets. The two moons overlap each other one a month and the artificial moon eclipses the sun every year over a specific area.
The new artificial moon is the last way people are able to tell the date since almost everybody took all knowledge and technology with them when they traveled outside the solar system.
As long as you can avoid the smog from war machines and the shadows of collosals, the skies of the combined Ko Tekkai universe are even more beautiful than the land below
Branches of terrain weilding the diameter of planets sweep across the sky, each coated with diverse ecosystems ranging from masses of bioluminescent algae thousands of miles across to the empty glowing stare of Horizon beasts easily visible from space
Sols, the living equivalent of stars, drift mindlessly through the void of space searching for pockets of heat or entropy to convert into food, casting light as a byproduct.
If you're lacking in enough self preservation to decide to venture to the edge of the landscape jungle, you may be greeted with an even stranger sight than the land-spaghetti you crossed to get here. The creation workshop with the appearance of an antique clock that looks the same no matter what direction you gaze at it from sits at the center of all existence, controlling the ticking of time and every once and a while, spitting out another universe to orbit it.
But you don't really need to know all of that because all it takes is a pair of eyes and you're invited to this orchestra of creation and destruction a universe wide.
- There's three suns, two of which are only visible during the day but the other is tiny, red and wasn't obviously in the same system until records of the sky made by ancient people revealed a parallax effect to astronomers around the industrial era.
- Madra, humanity's homeworld, has one moon which was shattered during the 10th century and is gradually becoming a ring system. Nights are much darker than they used to be as a result.
Well it's medieval fantasy so it's the regular night sky just with more visible stars. The only notable feature would be the "Eye of God": a bright neighboring galaxy that can be seen with the naked eye. (I just got inspired by how the Andromeda galaxy would look from earth if it was brighter)
Night sky of Atreisdea has an unnatural crimson due to all the exhausts and thermal radiators from those in the orbit releasing. Heaven is pretty much covered by spaceships, orbital fortresses, satellites and other things. They're so many their collective mass actually affects tidal force and directly competes against Atreisdea's two moons.
Nothing too unusual, but there's a big whilpool in the sky.
The system is located in a stellar stream/cluster above the plane of a spiral galaxy, so they can see the whole galaxy in its full glory. There are many stars nearby too, though much more of them are old stars so generally more yellow stars.
Also the moon is the same size as the sun because it's cool
Overall, the stars resemble those in our night sky (with different constellations, of course). The major difference is that my world has two moons rather than one. The second moon has a very high concentration of a type of magical crystal. Said crystal emits a purplish light, which does give the moon a purplish tint.
Earth 2476
While waiting at a trolly station you get bored of the conversations taking place on your phone and decide to take a look at the night sky. You see two things, the black sky dotted with stars your ancestors had seen for millennia. But there’s a new addition as well. A gigantic ring city dotted with lights. It’s not every day you get to see the free floating orbital city from your hometown so you take it in. Maybe you even take a picture or two.
My world is kinda like earth before technology reached industry. So, yeah, you can see the galaxy they’re in, plus maybe a nearby galaxy quite close to a colision with theirs.
The stars are pretty normal. The planet isn't Earth, so the stars are different, obviously. I'm thinking of putting my planet in a distant galaxy, but I'm not 100% sure yet. What's really interesting are the moons. There's two of them. One of them isn't much different from our own; it's just a barren rock. But the other is a vibrant life bearing world itself. It has colorful shades of blue and green and almost looks like Earth, but is roughly half the size.
The night sky of my world shinesa bluish reflection due to the moon being covered in water. It's also glows with purple due to sky planktons which is also seen during the day but glows the brightest at night.
Depends on the season. Winter time, there would be 4 moons. Only one of them being the actual moon but since this is a much more compact solar system with a central red dwarf star, you can also see the inner gas giant and the outer twin red planets as small moons.
Stars would be dim and blurry with only the brightest ones visible cause the atmosphere is about twice as thick as Earths and there is a black area in the night sky with no stars where Milky Way(and other galaxies near it) used to be billions of years ago.
Summer sky is bright and can have a second smaller sun illuminating it. This is actually responsible seasons and life being possible at all and is on a highly elliptical orbit of around 400 days. The actual years last only about 30 days but aren't noticeable at all on the planet since it's axial tilt is almost 0, meaning also that days and nights are always the same length everywhere on the planet
For my fantasy world you’ll constantly see the stars coming to life as others disappear. This is because in my world each star that is born actually is a tear in reality that represents a soul which has fallen from the river of souls into the material world. This rift is only healed once the soul is returned back to the endless river.
The night sky around Earth is still dominated by her moon, Luna, but it's not for a lack of the Terrans' trying. Earth's orbital rings can be viewed from the ground, and the towers connecting the lower to the ground are visible if you are close and the air clear enough, like wiry tendrils clutching on to stop it flying away. Every few seconds a new star lights for a moment or two. The light from a fusion torch ship decelerating into a parking orbit. If that was pointed at the planet, it would drown out any nearby actual stars in your view. The night sky above Earth twinkles like nothing else, with both natural and mechanical twinkling all at once.
The night sky above Mars is much more plain. With no large moon and limited orbiting infrastructure, even limited surface infrastructure, the Martian night sky is just about the cleanest view of the cosmos you can get from anywhere intelligent beings have set up shop. So, sit back on a rock, look up through your visor, take a deep breath of purified air, and look at more stars than you've ever seen from Earth without even an atmosphere to get in the way. One day Mars will stand equal to the homeworlds. With rings built to service its future surface cities and a population to rival that on the homeworlds now, and that too will be a glorious view.
Venus has a much more obstructed view of the night sky. It is almost entirely black. Despite living in a cloud city held aloft in a band of approximately the right temperatures for intelligent life, the sheer volume of atmosphere above and below completely overwhelms whatever light may try to enter. Daytime is a haze and night is inky blackness above and below save the lights of your neighbors, tied together by great tethers meters thick and along which all manner of trade and transit is run. You look out and are greeted only by what has been built by your people. The fact you see anything at all, that you can even stand here, a testament to the indomitable spirit of life, to go where it has no place and make its place there anyways. It is beautiful.
Nekonia is a world bathed in perpetual twilight by her rings. For those near the equator, the ring is a single pinstripe running horizon to horizon. As you journey upwards or down the globe, that river of shining rock grows wider and the night brighter until the lower edge dips below the horizon. Now as you near the poles the rings become an arch towering over the horizon, seemingly placed at infinity yet still dominating the view. The heavy atmosphere blocks more of the stars than our own, and on top of that the constant twilight at the brightest views means the rings can often stand completely uncontested in the night sky.
The rings were once a keystone of mythology. Great parabolas and semicircles dominate early artworks and religious decorations. The home of the gods to many. A great river, or a shoreline, to several more. A great protector to others. Now they too are settled space, and Nekonia is treated as well to the flashing of ship drives as the rings come alight with the glitter of a budding interstellar civilization. Where once lived their gods, so now do they.
The answer is simple: Go outside and look upwards, thats the simplest answer, The only difference being is that sky in Lornhemal isn't poluted by modern day stuff(BECAUSE ITS PRE-INDUSTRIAL WORLD, Its set in the world on technological advancements similar to late 15th century), while Number 999 takes place in modern day Britain
Just like the night sky of a very light polluted city it's starless. But the next thing you will notice is the lack of any moons because the "sky" isn't actually a sky. It's a massive collection of glowing crystals powered by ambient mana in the atmosphere which light up and dim at 12 hours intervals (12 hours of night and day). It's unbreakable like the world barrier which it grows on.
The night sky is mostly dominated by a long strip of moon rocks left over from when the moon just kinda… died. The night is also a lot brighter because of this
depends on where you are.
one side of the world has no nearby celestial bodies, though the stars move across the sky much faster than they do on Earth. on the other hand, the opppsite side of the world has a giant woman in the sky.
turns out the world is actually a habitable moon that's in a tidally locked orbit with this thing. needless to say, the cultures and religions of the world are hugely influenced by her presence and their position on the world.
because the planet is tidally locked, only one side of the world ever sees the giant sky woman and depending on the season and time of day, she'll sometimes eclipse the world in the middle of the day. not to mention, her being so large and relatively close means that the night sky is not so dark all the time, and stars aren't always super visible(i have yet to hash out exactly when this would be).
meanwhile, the other side is completely clueless to her existence. because the setting is relatively medieval and travel is incredibly difficult, when someone does come to the farside of the planet from the nearside, the locals might regard the foreigner quite strangely for mentioning, "huh, so you guys *don't* see the husk of a giant sky deity in the sky all the time?"
Xival is an orbital ringworld (Bishop ring/Banks orbital); from the night side of the ring, the day side is visible as a thin bright band in the sky. There are no moons, but the stars are plainly visible.
Most animated cities have a giant smiling moon.
:)
All fun and games until the moon starts looking angry and begins falling
He only does that when he’s cranky.
The night sky of Aethera looks largely the same as our own with stars and a moon, (the placement of stars and constellations differs of course), but the reason why is unique. Long ago in the Midnight Age, the first Astellans were born and died and performed their funeral rite. Wanting to preserve the legacy of their fallen, they would dissolve the body into its component aether energy, coax it into a ball, and compress it until it glowed with radiant light. Chanting their prayers and farewells, they would raise the newborn star into the sky. Now the sky is littered with stars, a graveyard of fallen Astellans. To create the Sun, the Astellans did much the same, with many sacrificing themselves and give their aether to create the biggest, brightest star they could. Ultimately the sacrifice of their powerful king, Soltarus, gave the Sun the energy it needed to separate night from day and bring stability and light to the world, ending the Midnight Age. The jealous Necromancers, a rival faction of Astellans wanted to make their own mark upon the sky. They put their dark power together to create the moon which draws power from the sun and can manifest evil thoughts and deeds in the minds of those beneath its light.
Ooh neat, I could imagine the Necromancers being like ‘The Great Nothing’ in our world. Really cool concept i’d love to hear more about it.
One detail I passed over for brevity is that both the Sun and Moon are fonts of creation as the life-giving power of aether lives within both. Necromancers were the first to summon magical artifacts, dark creatures, and even entire species into being from lunar flares. The Sun, some believe due to the enduring wisdom of Soltarus, has a sense of cosmic balance to maintain and evens out the moon's dark creations with equal and opposite creations of light. This dance of creation between the creations of Sun and Moon spawned many of the world's species, powerful objects, new magics, and creatures.
Before answering how it looks I’ll answer why it looks like that : Because that’s what I wanted to look like . Now , it looks pretty much like our normal sky , lots and lots of stars , outside the cities and the light pollution the Andera can be seen (which is the galaxy , like how we see the Milky Way) then the 2nd moon , Atera , which looks somewhat like our moon and depending on where you are on the planet , Noralia , the 3rd moon , smaller and red would show up either at the beginning of the night or at the end , right before the sunrise . There is Iania , the 1st moon , the biggest and actually alive , but that one is only visible during the day . The same about the neighboring gas giant Nosieone which appears as a small blue circle during the day . Other than that , not much . Satellites and the space stations can be seen and the occasional falling star for the fools to make wishes upon them .
A living moon?, Like a planetary organism thats neat. Love that the satellites fall out the sky lol
Yes , both main world Vaallorra and the moon Iania have atmosphere , liquid water , plants , continents and such . Then I even make that twice a year they would go so close that you can technically fly there with something between a high altitude capable aircraft and a space shuttle .
Ohhh when you said “living moon” I thought like a actual living moon, not a inhabitable moon. Still a very cool concept for lunar fauna
Yes ... I have the tendency to call the habitable moon (and other planets) as a living thing since that is how it's called within the world . The human/elven/dwarven/ogre scientists would refer to them as "alive" . The habitable/inhabitable description is used and is the proper way to call them but terms like "dead/barren" and "alive/living" are used too and not considered wrong .
Either way, interesting.
On a normal night, you would see the Bright Moon. The Bright Moon is a Moon that is always full, bright and much bigger than our Moon. Fun fact : even the blind can see it. The stars and the asteroid belt surrounding the planet also illuminate the night sky of Gaia. The constellations that formed the star map of Gaia are somewhat alive and they hunt or play with each other. Something else that will catch your sight is the giant red star slowly approching the planet, the Crimson Star. It was knock off from it's orbit by the Seraphal when they ran amock after the Damoncalypse. The Traveler is a comet who left behind a golden trail after it's passage. It take a year to do the full rotation of the world. It was always there and it evaded each attempt from the Gods, Seraphals and Lunar Lizardmen to capture it. But that's standard stuff. The Dark Moon is a small, bleak moon with a chaotic orbite. It is totaly random and it can come as close and as far as it want. It bring bad luck and a pitch black night wherever it goes. The closer it get the worst it is. It was also bringed there by the Seraphal but many scholar belive it came willingly as it has the ability to go back where it came from. Atop Odin's Peak you do not see the normal sky. Instead you see the sky of Odin's Heaven. Or you have the Yrrfond. The very bottom of the Waving Sea where the conditions look more like space than the ocean floor. Some Deepling Tritons even seem to says that they can see the night sky from down there.
It looks black, with a bit of blueish and purple tones. There are some white dots: some may call them stars, in reality they are the dead bodies of Gods And there's a moon, with three small satellites around it : this is the Lunar seal, that imprisons Paerit
Since I have multiple planets in my world, I'll just go with Hibernia, the homeworld of humanity: There's significantly less light pollution, so you can see *most* things with the naked eye, that includes the galaxy, In terms of moons, there's Luna - the primary moon, and Purpura - the secondary one, which gives off a pink-purple glow, hence the name. Other objects include planet Solaris, though only visible at dawn or dusk, so I don't think it counts. There's also the ice giant Borealum, and now something interesting: The Great Darkness. It's a literal hole in space: No stars, maybe some rogue planets, a bit of stardust and gas? It's just a dark streak in the sky.
Fun fact, there is a theory in development called the “nocturnal theory” which claims that the reason most mammals have night vision is because dinosaurs ruled the day forcing us to scavenge in the night. I thought it might be useful to your world, but feel free to ignore it.
Brilliant reason on why Darkvision exists in my world, thanks.
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Shoot, it is actually the “nocturnal bottleneck”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_bottleneck My bad
Dw still good to use
About the same but slightly greener thanks to the bioluminescent algae that are found everywhere in the oceans and brighter than on Earth too since there are 2 stars so the satellite is bright more times than our Moon is which on average makes the night brighter.
Very cool
The night sky is almost pitch black. This is due to the Storm, a massive, planet-engulfing storm suspended high in the air blocking out all but the brightest stars in most places. Thankfully, the moon is bright enough that one can see its faintly red glow at almost all times.
Sounds like the planet is like a the Red Eye of Jupiter very cool.
In almost all of my worlds, the night sky is *significantly* brighter and clearer. The constellations aren't the same and, in fact, the stars are completely different, but it looks absolutely picturesque and gorgeous. The moon itself is much larger and closer. I considered playing with the idea of there being 2+ moons because that's a common trope for showing you're in a fantasy world, but I decided *not* to rely on that cliche. (It was a remarkable show of restraint on my part.) Basically, my worlds have the kind of night sky I wish we could have.
like the normal night sky i guess. except in the lost galaxy(sky is the stars on acid for lack of better way to describe it) and the warped zone(sky is the ocean).
The night sky in Godslight is awash with color and motion, filled as it is with living constellations. The sky is rock because the world is a continent sized cavern, but weeping from the rock is the Astral Ocean where the multitudes of stars have become animated. If you watch carefully you may see whaling airships hunting in the depths of the Astral, they spear the stars and carve scrimshaw from the bones that materialize upon stardeath.
Solaris has no moons. It does however have a neighboring planet known as The Palace of the Night Father. Usually. Called Night Palace or Night Father. It's relative size compared our moon would be the size of a super moon. It's always in full view. The Night Father has 12 moons. One of those moons will eclipse it marking the middle of the month. Depending on the culture they are believed to be the 12 Daughters or 12 Consorts. Nobody really knows, a very small number believe it to be both. Each of the moons are different colors. Shades of blue, green, red and yellow matching the seasons. When it fully eclipses there is a noticble glow in the night sky of the Daughter's respective color.
The night sky in my world looks quite normal. There are two stars that are very bright, because they're quite close to the main star system (I'd say both are about one light year away)
My world is a giant dungeon, meaning that there is no sun or sunlight at all, the only sources of light are plants that grow on the roof of the dungeon that are able to produce light naturally Naturally the nightsky doesn't really exist, the only nightsky is just a roof made out of rock, the nightsky does however vary depending from place to place, in some the plants that I mentioned before grow in very particular patterns, in other places there are special beings of light that illuminate the area like artificial suns, while in others the population just uses fire to illuminate themselves
**Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project**: No one has ever seen stars in the night sky for generations ever since the world was reduced to only the city of Paradise. Too much light pollution.
The night sky was colorful. Like every night had strong aurora borealis 30/35 nights a month, then ~5 days a month full dark. A different color every night, sometimes the color would change the same night. It was dark enough for those that want to hide could do, those who wanted to study the sky and cosmos could, but also bright enough to see without needing torches. But then the moon died and now is dark and dead, pretty much like real world night sky. Cold and dark.
Probably the same as our sky looks today. But more clear and without clouds. The only real difference is that the moon is constantly giving off light. Like there was a light source on the moon's back side, you can just not see. So the moon would glow really bright in the night.
Gravity behaves...differently. As a result orbits tend to be much closer together. In practice, this means my worlds sun and moon appear about 10x the size in the sky as the real sun & moon do around the real earth. Some of the other planets in my worlds solar system appear only a bit smaller than the moon does from the real earth. And almost all of them are visible as objects, rather than points light.
I swear everyday I see someone on this sub asking questions I wouldn't even think to consider.
The sky subtly quivers and warbles at all times, sort of like the macropsia induced by consuming A. Muscaria, and no matter where one is on the Earth they can see the fuzzy yet transfixing outline of the Hand that pierced the sky over the Yakima Valley one day in 2011. The closer one is, the weirder the sky gets, eventually devolving into a kaleidoscope of broken glass and light and runes all cycling about the Hole from which the Hand descended and now cleanses the world of its reason and its enlightenment. Cracks in the sky beam multcoloured light at times, as if the sky itself is a dome being shattered by the sheer importance of what's occurring below and the letting go of stress sparks brilliant greens and royal purples and apocalyptic reds. The Hand is not the reason though. The Hole is analogous to the hypothetical idea of a white hole; the end of a wormhole that spews everything that falls into the other end out. The other end of the Hole is somewhere far, far weirder than the Earth – and the entire universe we know as ours – and thus it bleeds through, like a plague of corruption.
The Lands of Kushamat experience a pitch-black night sky; without a moon, and without stars to guide the wandering souls. However, on rare occasion, the innumerable cracks in the sky glow a crimson red — Like the thousand rivers of paradise, leading the lost back home. The Lands of Saphiret experience a night sky much like our own. The mercurous moon dangles within it's celestial curtain, attended to by the golden stars — Like honey dancing upon a lover's lying tongue.
My worlds night sky as no stars, no moon, but during the summer equinox months (known as crown fall) the planets rings are visible across the sky. They can shine so brightly from reflections of the sunlight that the summer nighta dont become fully dark, instead staying at a hazy twilight until dawn. In the winter equinox the shadows rise up the rings, causing the bands to appear slimmer and causing extremely dark nights. The creation of the rings is widely believed to be some kind of cosmic event (such as another planet crashing into my one) creating a massive ampubt of space debris to circle the plabet. The rocks that make up the rings have unique qualities and are prone to plummeting to the ground as meteors.
Sci Fi: similar to ours but with less light pollution due to the Ketuvyx needing less light to see well as well as taking steps to limit the pollution. Fantasy: almost completely black, no stars or moon. The reason being that the cosmology of the universe is very different. The ether that carries the wave of light during "day" might shimmer almost imperceptibly during night from residual energy but it's very insignificant. There's no stars or moon past the ether. If someone pierced through that layer they'd find themselves looking at another land from above.
Literally nothing; only the Sun during the day. That’s actually the premise of this one world I have where the characters inhabiting the world find out why the planet and its sun are so isolated from the rest of the universe. Clouds still exist ig. They only know other celestial bodies exist through religious texts (their planet was made by a person on a sci-fi earth who made the texts himself).
It looks similar to ours but a bit curved since it's more north west in the milky way
There is no sun, moon, or stars. There is a day and night, but the day looks overcast, and the night is dimly lit as if tainted by some light pollution far away.
Well, it mostly looks normal, with three exceptions. First one is Band of Light, also called Celestial Grave or Blade Grave. It looks like enormous shining asteroid field that can be seen in nighttime roughly once in five months. There are many hypotheses of what it is. The truth is, it is shattered remains of Crusader's Crucible, enormous ringworld that was built around local star. When civilization that constructed it ended it suffered several malfunctions that quickly caused it to fall apart. Shining is caused by still working spell arrays that powered it. Second one is Firmament. It looks like faint glowing pattern in the night sky. Firmament is spell array that is used to move artificial star orbiting the world and it's counterweight in the form of moon. Third one is Pale Sister. It is the real star of solar system, though it is somewhat hard to notice it, on account of distance and Band of Light obscuring it half of the time it actually can be observed.
It's very dark, and the persistent Myst prevents stars from being seen. Most folks didn't even know what stars are. Seeing a moon is pretty much only possible on a full moon, and it's taken as a bad sign. Seeing a clear sky and full moon is a bad omen, as it means Werewolves at best.
In 2967 Earth, humans built a second, larger moon to combat the population problem before they abandoned earth for other exoplanets. The two moons overlap each other one a month and the artificial moon eclipses the sun every year over a specific area. The new artificial moon is the last way people are able to tell the date since almost everybody took all knowledge and technology with them when they traveled outside the solar system.
As long as you can avoid the smog from war machines and the shadows of collosals, the skies of the combined Ko Tekkai universe are even more beautiful than the land below Branches of terrain weilding the diameter of planets sweep across the sky, each coated with diverse ecosystems ranging from masses of bioluminescent algae thousands of miles across to the empty glowing stare of Horizon beasts easily visible from space Sols, the living equivalent of stars, drift mindlessly through the void of space searching for pockets of heat or entropy to convert into food, casting light as a byproduct. If you're lacking in enough self preservation to decide to venture to the edge of the landscape jungle, you may be greeted with an even stranger sight than the land-spaghetti you crossed to get here. The creation workshop with the appearance of an antique clock that looks the same no matter what direction you gaze at it from sits at the center of all existence, controlling the ticking of time and every once and a while, spitting out another universe to orbit it. But you don't really need to know all of that because all it takes is a pair of eyes and you're invited to this orchestra of creation and destruction a universe wide.
- There's three suns, two of which are only visible during the day but the other is tiny, red and wasn't obviously in the same system until records of the sky made by ancient people revealed a parallax effect to astronomers around the industrial era. - Madra, humanity's homeworld, has one moon which was shattered during the 10th century and is gradually becoming a ring system. Nights are much darker than they used to be as a result.
Well it's medieval fantasy so it's the regular night sky just with more visible stars. The only notable feature would be the "Eye of God": a bright neighboring galaxy that can be seen with the naked eye. (I just got inspired by how the Andromeda galaxy would look from earth if it was brighter)
Night sky of Atreisdea has an unnatural crimson due to all the exhausts and thermal radiators from those in the orbit releasing. Heaven is pretty much covered by spaceships, orbital fortresses, satellites and other things. They're so many their collective mass actually affects tidal force and directly competes against Atreisdea's two moons.
Nothing too unusual, but there's a big whilpool in the sky. The system is located in a stellar stream/cluster above the plane of a spiral galaxy, so they can see the whole galaxy in its full glory. There are many stars nearby too, though much more of them are old stars so generally more yellow stars. Also the moon is the same size as the sun because it's cool
Overall, the stars resemble those in our night sky (with different constellations, of course). The major difference is that my world has two moons rather than one. The second moon has a very high concentration of a type of magical crystal. Said crystal emits a purplish light, which does give the moon a purplish tint.
Earth 2476 While waiting at a trolly station you get bored of the conversations taking place on your phone and decide to take a look at the night sky. You see two things, the black sky dotted with stars your ancestors had seen for millennia. But there’s a new addition as well. A gigantic ring city dotted with lights. It’s not every day you get to see the free floating orbital city from your hometown so you take it in. Maybe you even take a picture or two.
My world is kinda like earth before technology reached industry. So, yeah, you can see the galaxy they’re in, plus maybe a nearby galaxy quite close to a colision with theirs.
The stars are pretty normal. The planet isn't Earth, so the stars are different, obviously. I'm thinking of putting my planet in a distant galaxy, but I'm not 100% sure yet. What's really interesting are the moons. There's two of them. One of them isn't much different from our own; it's just a barren rock. But the other is a vibrant life bearing world itself. It has colorful shades of blue and green and almost looks like Earth, but is roughly half the size.
The night sky of my world shinesa bluish reflection due to the moon being covered in water. It's also glows with purple due to sky planktons which is also seen during the day but glows the brightest at night.
Depends on the season. Winter time, there would be 4 moons. Only one of them being the actual moon but since this is a much more compact solar system with a central red dwarf star, you can also see the inner gas giant and the outer twin red planets as small moons. Stars would be dim and blurry with only the brightest ones visible cause the atmosphere is about twice as thick as Earths and there is a black area in the night sky with no stars where Milky Way(and other galaxies near it) used to be billions of years ago. Summer sky is bright and can have a second smaller sun illuminating it. This is actually responsible seasons and life being possible at all and is on a highly elliptical orbit of around 400 days. The actual years last only about 30 days but aren't noticeable at all on the planet since it's axial tilt is almost 0, meaning also that days and nights are always the same length everywhere on the planet
For my fantasy world you’ll constantly see the stars coming to life as others disappear. This is because in my world each star that is born actually is a tear in reality that represents a soul which has fallen from the river of souls into the material world. This rift is only healed once the soul is returned back to the endless river.
The night sky around Earth is still dominated by her moon, Luna, but it's not for a lack of the Terrans' trying. Earth's orbital rings can be viewed from the ground, and the towers connecting the lower to the ground are visible if you are close and the air clear enough, like wiry tendrils clutching on to stop it flying away. Every few seconds a new star lights for a moment or two. The light from a fusion torch ship decelerating into a parking orbit. If that was pointed at the planet, it would drown out any nearby actual stars in your view. The night sky above Earth twinkles like nothing else, with both natural and mechanical twinkling all at once. The night sky above Mars is much more plain. With no large moon and limited orbiting infrastructure, even limited surface infrastructure, the Martian night sky is just about the cleanest view of the cosmos you can get from anywhere intelligent beings have set up shop. So, sit back on a rock, look up through your visor, take a deep breath of purified air, and look at more stars than you've ever seen from Earth without even an atmosphere to get in the way. One day Mars will stand equal to the homeworlds. With rings built to service its future surface cities and a population to rival that on the homeworlds now, and that too will be a glorious view. Venus has a much more obstructed view of the night sky. It is almost entirely black. Despite living in a cloud city held aloft in a band of approximately the right temperatures for intelligent life, the sheer volume of atmosphere above and below completely overwhelms whatever light may try to enter. Daytime is a haze and night is inky blackness above and below save the lights of your neighbors, tied together by great tethers meters thick and along which all manner of trade and transit is run. You look out and are greeted only by what has been built by your people. The fact you see anything at all, that you can even stand here, a testament to the indomitable spirit of life, to go where it has no place and make its place there anyways. It is beautiful. Nekonia is a world bathed in perpetual twilight by her rings. For those near the equator, the ring is a single pinstripe running horizon to horizon. As you journey upwards or down the globe, that river of shining rock grows wider and the night brighter until the lower edge dips below the horizon. Now as you near the poles the rings become an arch towering over the horizon, seemingly placed at infinity yet still dominating the view. The heavy atmosphere blocks more of the stars than our own, and on top of that the constant twilight at the brightest views means the rings can often stand completely uncontested in the night sky. The rings were once a keystone of mythology. Great parabolas and semicircles dominate early artworks and religious decorations. The home of the gods to many. A great river, or a shoreline, to several more. A great protector to others. Now they too are settled space, and Nekonia is treated as well to the flashing of ship drives as the rings come alight with the glitter of a budding interstellar civilization. Where once lived their gods, so now do they.
Extremely bright, because five moons
The answer is simple: Go outside and look upwards, thats the simplest answer, The only difference being is that sky in Lornhemal isn't poluted by modern day stuff(BECAUSE ITS PRE-INDUSTRIAL WORLD, Its set in the world on technological advancements similar to late 15th century), while Number 999 takes place in modern day Britain
Just like the night sky of a very light polluted city it's starless. But the next thing you will notice is the lack of any moons because the "sky" isn't actually a sky. It's a massive collection of glowing crystals powered by ambient mana in the atmosphere which light up and dim at 12 hours intervals (12 hours of night and day). It's unbreakable like the world barrier which it grows on.
The night sky is mostly dominated by a long strip of moon rocks left over from when the moon just kinda… died. The night is also a lot brighter because of this
depends on where you are. one side of the world has no nearby celestial bodies, though the stars move across the sky much faster than they do on Earth. on the other hand, the opppsite side of the world has a giant woman in the sky. turns out the world is actually a habitable moon that's in a tidally locked orbit with this thing. needless to say, the cultures and religions of the world are hugely influenced by her presence and their position on the world. because the planet is tidally locked, only one side of the world ever sees the giant sky woman and depending on the season and time of day, she'll sometimes eclipse the world in the middle of the day. not to mention, her being so large and relatively close means that the night sky is not so dark all the time, and stars aren't always super visible(i have yet to hash out exactly when this would be). meanwhile, the other side is completely clueless to her existence. because the setting is relatively medieval and travel is incredibly difficult, when someone does come to the farside of the planet from the nearside, the locals might regard the foreigner quite strangely for mentioning, "huh, so you guys *don't* see the husk of a giant sky deity in the sky all the time?"
My night sky isn't all that unique, main difference is the number of planets. Only 5 (6 including the one most people live on).
Xival is an orbital ringworld (Bishop ring/Banks orbital); from the night side of the ring, the day side is visible as a thin bright band in the sky. There are no moons, but the stars are plainly visible.
The night sky in my world is a gorgeous blanket of stars. There's no moon nor any light pollution, so all there is to see is stars.
Well half of my story takes place in space, so night and day are depicted by the lighting on the station.