I'm hiding in my air conditioned apartment, yeah. Summer, bleh.
I have a setting I work on where a pair of habitable planets are tidelocked with a mutual twenty-eight hour orbit; my better developed story takes place on the smaller of the two, which is pretty Earthlike as far's climate goes, and only a little smaller than Venus.
The larger is kind of an Arrakis clone, about a third again Earth's diameter and something like three quarters of its surface is salt-flat desert... It takes up about sixty degrees of sky, from what I remember.
Humans have by far the best night-vision of any critter living on the near-side of either world, but you can tell the time pretty exactly by looking up and seeing what geographical features the terminator lines up with.
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I have a setting I work on where a pair of habitable planets are tidelocked with a mutual twenty-eight hour orbit; my better developed story takes place on the smaller of the two, which is pretty Earthlike as far's climate goes, and only a little smaller than Venus.
The larger is kind of an Arrakis clone, about a third again Earth's diameter and something like three quarters of its surface is salt-flat desert... It takes up about sixty degrees of sky, from what I remember.
Humans have by far the best night-vision of any critter living on the near-side of either world, but you can tell the time pretty exactly by looking up and seeing what geographical features the terminator lines up with.