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<blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 6990331" data-attributes="member: 65151">Very helpful. Thank you. Also, my respect for the Ancient Greeks has grown two sizes today. And I don't blame them either for throwing out the calculated minimum distance for the stars as absurdly huge. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So the things I should note for my setting so far are1) No parallax for the stars as they are close and fixed.2) The sun must move on an eccentric orbit.I'm thinking for the stars that they'll be points of light on the inside of a dark sphere. Though I also like the idea of them being celestial beings hanging out in the void. Perhaps cities. If they're fixed, e.g. on a sphere or simply maintaining the same relative positions in space, what does that do to how they look to observers. I guess my world isn't revolving if the sun goes around it. Which would mean stars don't rise or set. Or if they do, then it must mean that the celestial sphere (or the stars at least) are also orbiting around the Earth.It now occurs to me that the Sun typically looks smaller than the moon and I have the amusing visual in my mind of an &quot;eclipse&quot; where the sun moves in front of the moon. Probably not something I would do, but makes me smile and it's almost tempting just to see the looks on my players' faces.Any significant problems with a flat earth if I decide to do that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knasser, post: 6990331, member: 65151"] Very helpful. Thank you. Also, my respect for the Ancient Greeks has grown two sizes today. And I don't blame them either for throwing out the calculated minimum distance for the stars as absurdly huge. :) So the things I should note for my setting so far are 1) No parallax for the stars as they are close and fixed. 2) The sun must move on an eccentric orbit. I'm thinking for the stars that they'll be points of light on the inside of a dark sphere. Though I also like the idea of them being celestial beings hanging out in the void. Perhaps cities. If they're fixed, e.g. on a sphere or simply maintaining the same relative positions in space, what does that do to how they look to observers. I guess my world isn't revolving if the sun goes around it. Which would mean stars don't rise or set. Or if they do, then it must mean that the celestial sphere (or the stars at least) are also orbiting around the Earth. It now occurs to me that the Sun typically looks smaller than the moon and I have the amusing visual in my mind of an "eclipse" where the sun moves in front of the moon. Probably not something I would do, but makes me smile and it's almost tempting just to see the looks on my players' faces. Any significant problems with a flat earth if I decide to do that? [/QUOTE]

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